On the consciousness of the universal and the individual : a contribution to the phenomenology of the thought processes / by Francis Aveling.
- Francis Aveling
- Date:
- 1912
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the consciousness of the universal and the individual : a contribution to the phenomenology of the thought processes / by Francis Aveling. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![\From the Psychological Laboratory of the University of London, University College.] PREFACE The research which forms the subject of the present essay was undertaken on the completion of a pre¬ vious study, made in the Ldboratoire de Psychologie Exydrimentale of the Lnstitut Sup&ieur of the University of Louvain, upon the function of generalisation.1 The points established in that previous research, carried out under the direction and with the help of Professor Alfred Michotte, were few in number, but of some considerable interest in themselves, and indicative of further possible lines of investigation. The problem then involved was one of perception-—rather than of conception, as in / the present study. It was ascertained that the instruction given beforehand to the observers—that they were to perceive pictures of objects, or objects, exposed in the tachistoscope, as (a ) individuals or 1 Notes of this study were published in the Journal of Psychology, vol. iv. part ii., September 1911, under the title “The Relation of Thought-Process and Percept in Perception.”](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31345360_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
