 The museum conception also represents a more general tendency Dewey sees in philosophical theory, “the philosophical fallacy”. With this term Dewey refers to a set of preconceptions underlying inquiry which frame research and guide its progress before any conscious inquiry has even taken place. In aesthetics, the fallacy has, in Dewey’s view, taken the form that art and the aesthetic must necessarily be something separate from ordinary everyday modes of experience and activity. This is an assumption to which any aesthetic inquiry must fit itself. As in other fields of philosophy, the cure to the fallacy in the case of aesthetics is to look at experience more carefully, in particular at the ways in which aesthetic experience emerges from the common patterns of all experience, which Dewey’s naturalism examines.