Chapter 12

THINKING

1. Different types of thinking: Chance, or idle thinking--Uncritical belief--Assimilative thinking--Deliberative thinking. 2. The function of thinking: Meaning depends on relations--The function of thinking is to discover relations--Near and remote relations--Child and adult thinking. 3. The mechanism of thinking: Sensations and percepts as elements in thinking. 4. The concept: The concepts serve to group and classify--Growth of a concept--Definition of concept--Language and the concept--The necessity for growing concepts. 5. Judgment: Nature of judgment--Judgment used in percepts and concepts--Judgment leads to general truths--The validity of judgments. 6. Reasoning: Nature of reasoning--How judgments function in reasoning--Deduction and the syllogism--Induction--The necessity for broad induction--The interrelation of induction and deduction. 7. Problems in observation and introspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179