(3)  Sociological  conditions.  ''  Character,"  we
have  just  seen,  can  be  scientifically  defined  by  us,
therefore  it  must  be  scientifically  determined.  Now
this  factor  of  character.  Professor  Dewey  goes  on  to
say,  combines  in  an  "  absolute  reciprocal  determina-
tion "  with  the  factor  of  the  "  situation  judged  " ;  and
the  scientific  and  determined  nature  of  the  latter  is
even  more  evident  than  that  of  character.    To  bring


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about  a  good  moral  judgment  what  do  we  need  ?  In
reply,  Mr.  Dewey  says :  "  A  social  science  which  will
analyze  a  content  as  a  combination  of  elements  in
the  same  way  that  psychological  analysis  determines
an  act  as  a  set  of  attitudes  "  (p.  2^).  It  is,  more-
over, impossible  to  observe  very  strictly  the  dis-
tinction between  psychological  and  sociological  con-
ditions because  the  social  influences  here  taken  into
consideration  come  into  action  only  in  as  far  as  they
influence  the  judger,  i.  e.,  in  as  far  as  they  become
psychological.  Professor  Dewey,  therefore,  wishes
here  only  to  emphasize  what  he  calls  the  ''  continuity
of  the  scientific  judgments,"  namely,  the  interaction
social,  biological,  physical,  etc.,  phenomena  when
they  bear  upon  the  moral  judgment.  "  Any  scene
of  action  which  is  social  is  also  cosmic  or  physical.
