Browning on Inquiry into Inquiry, Part 2

This is the second of two papers addressing Browning’s “Designation, Characterization, and Theory in Dewey’s Logic” (2002) where he distinguishes a series of pretheoretical and theoretical stages for developing a theory of logic. The first of these papers recounted Browning’s original version of these stages and the ramifications of not clearly distinguishing them. The present paper proposes a modified version of this scheme of stages of inquiry into inquiry, laying out what I take to be the most productive way to clarify and explain Dewey’s logical theory.