unfoldedness

Updated: July 27, 2026

Thus he set up a goal which meant the arrest of growth, and a criterion which is not applicable to immediate guidance of powers, save through translation into abstract and symbolic formulae. A remote goal of complete unfoldedness is, in technical philosophic language, transcendental. That is, it is something apart from direct experience and perception.

John Dewey - Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education