The elements of the psychology of cognition / by Robert Jardine.

  • Robert Jardine
Date:
1874
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    CHAP. 1. SECT. I. 4. Elabo- ration of knowledge. CHAP. i. SECT. LI. These subjects, and certain problems involved in them, form an interesting chapter in the study of I the human mind. § 6. The last and highest class of phenomena to | which we shall require to turn our attention consists I of those complex processes of comparison, generalisa- j tion, and inference which are employed in the en- largement and elaboration of our knowledge. The study of the products of these processes is the work of the logician. Logic has to do with the results of the mental processes to which we are referring; but psychology is concerned with the nature of the processes themselves as revealed in consciousness. While, therefore, the objects of our study here will, to a certain extent, coincide with those of the I logician, we shall look upon them from a different I point of view. It will be our aim to discover the ! nature and laws of our mental activity exerted in the formation of those predications, general notions, and inferences which form the subject-matter of ! logic. Section II. CRITICISM OF SOURCES. § 7. In this section it is proposed to examine briefly the sources of our knowledge of the mind, for the purpose of ascertaining the kind and amount of evidence which they are likely to give of the mind’s processes. These sources we have already arranged into three classes—consciousness, the study of the
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