    Further, as Dewey says, “[d]emocracy is only estimable through the changed conception of intelligence that forms modern science” (“Intelligence and Morals”, MW4, 39); that is, through his conception of inquiry. Democracy is a method for identifying and solving the common problems confronted by communities. democracy is understood as consisting in and as providing the conditions for experimental inquiry. Robust inquiry requires that we must have access to all the available evidence and arguments. If we want our inquiry to be successful, we should not prejudge its outcomes, by excluding sources of experience that allow us to explore and correct our hypotheses. By contrast,