ABSTRACT

First Published in 1999. This is Volume XVII of twenty-one of a series on Cognitive Psychology. Written in 1923, this book looks at the treatises on Logic and seeks to discover the nature of reasoning which the author argues is tied up with an instinctive tendency to resolve complex psychical phenomena into more elementary processes.

chapter Chapter II|24 pages

Attention

Part I: Affective Conflict and Unity of Consciousness

chapter Chapter III|17 pages

Attention

Part II: Vividness and Connection

chapter Chapter IV|26 pages

What Is Reasoning?

chapter Chapter V|24 pages

The Evolution Of Reasoning

Part I: From Concrete Reasoning to Abstract Reasoning

chapter Chapter VI|20 pages

The Evolution Of Reasoning

Part II: From Intuition to Deduction

chapter Chapter VII|28 pages

The Higher Forms of Reasoning

Part I: Mathematical Reasoning in its Phases of Direct and Indirect Symbolism

chapter Chapter VIII|19 pages

The Higher Forms of Reasoning

Part II: Mathematical Reasoning in its phases of symbolic condensation and symbolic inversion

chapter Chapter IX|21 pages

The Higher Forms Of Reasoning

Part III: Mathematics and Mathematical Logic

chapter Chapter X|20 pages

“Intentional” Reasoning

I: Dialectic Reasoning

chapter Chapter XI|33 pages

“Intentional” Reasoning

II: Metaphysical Reasoning

chapter Chapter XII|29 pages

The Different Logical Types Of Mind

chapter Chapter XIII|28 pages

The Pathology Of Reasoning

Part I: The Incoherence and Illogicality of Dreams

chapter Chapter XIV|19 pages

The Pathology Of Reasoning

Part II: Coherent but Illogical Insanity due to Mono-affectivism

chapter Chapter XV|21 pages

The Pathology Of Reasoning

Part III: Incoherent Insanity due to Instability, Impotence, or Absence of the Affective Tendencies

chapter Chapter XVI|29 pages

Conscious and Unconscious Reasoning

chapter |5 pages

Conclusion

Reasoning In Relation To Vital Finalism