ABSTRACT

This chapter examines the factors that which determines the meanings or interpretations which the people give their thoughts, emotions, and actions. It discusses the forms of thinking and the manner in which they interplay with the culture. The development of perception in children amply illustrates the importance of cultural imposition on primary and elementary sensory contact with the world. The point has been illustrated with reference to space, time, number, colour, and all other perceptual fields. The development of the spatial sense is linked to distinctions between the self and the not-self. The advancement of the spatial sense is also evident in ones introduction to geometry, which deals with abstractions of space. At the common-sense adjustment level, the interplay of these factors is first of all on a more perceptual and simple classificatory basis. The history of the natural sciences is filled with the examples that explain how the logic and experiment go together.