ABSTRACT
Cook Wilson examines our ordinary use of the word ‘thought’ and its relatives. He describes thinking as including certain kinds of knowing and also certain activities that are not knowing. It is time to consider his view of the kinds of thinking that are not knowing. Cook Wilson enumerates the four forms of knowing: inquiring, forming opinions, wondering and deliberating. He lays no particular stress on this list, and it does not appear to represent his real views. Inquiring and wondering do not appear to be distinguishable. It appears that the only kind of knowledge ordinarily opposed to thought is perceptual knowledge. Cook Wilson challenges this exclusion of perception from thought, and thus maintains in effect that all knowing is thinking. All thinking is to be explained, according to him, by reference to the form of it which is knowing. With regard to knowledge, throughout Statement and Inference the prime example of things that one knows is geometry.
