Experience is not a private mental theatre but the continuous transaction of organism and environment. Dewey dismantles the residual dualism that still treats experience as subjective residue and nature as external given. Precarious and stable phases interpenetrate; means and ends are phases of the same history. Knowledge is not spectator contemplation but the controlled reconstruction of relations that already constitute the situation. The methodological demand is to begin with the gross, macroscopic continuum of lived intercourse rather than with refined scientific products. Experience is therefore the medium in which nature becomes articulate and art becomes continuous with inquiry. This transactional ontology remains one of the most radical refusals of the subject–object split in twentieth-century philosophy.