# The evolution of general ideas

Author: Ribot, Th. (Théodule), 1839-1916; Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice), 1862-1947 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Psychiatry/Psychology

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70911

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## Summary

Two forms of intellectual activity: association and dissociation.—Abstraction belongs to the second type. Its positive and negative conditions. It is a case of attention: psychical reinforcement.—It is in embryo in concrete operations: in perception, and the image. Its practical character.—Generalisation belongs to the first type. Problem of the _primum cognitum_; difference or resemblance?—Hierarchy of general ideas: need of a notation. Three great classes.—Lower forms of abstraction and generalisation or pre-linguistic period, characterised by absence of words 1

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-general-ideas-70911/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-general-ideas-70911/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-general-ideas-70911/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-general-ideas-70911/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-general-ideas-70911/chapters/9/index.md)
- [ii. Correlative concepts, with reciprocal relations; men and women,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-general-ideas-70911/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-general-ideas-70911/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter VI.; Kleinpaul, _Zeitschrift für Völkerpsych._, VI., 353.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-general-ideas-70911/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter XIV. The earlier psychologists, in considering the “faculty of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-general-ideas-70911/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-general-ideas-70911/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-general-ideas-70911/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-general-ideas-70911/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-general-ideas-70911/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-general-ideas-70911/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-general-ideas-70911/chapters/6/index.md)