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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Chapter I|29 pages
On The Mnemonic Origin and Nature of Affective Tendencies
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 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 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