Dewey and Wittgenstein (and flies, ducks, and rabbits)

John Dewey and Ludwig Wittgenstein were very different philosophers, but I think this is roughly what Wittgenstein meant about showing the fly the way out of the fly-bottle:

“Intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume -- an abandonment that results from their decreasing vitality and a change of urgent interest. We do not solve them: we get over them.”― John Dewey, The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy and Other Essays

 

And sometimes, you have to show that what you thought was a duck was in fact a rabbit, depending on how you're looking at it (and with whom)...