ABSTRACT
Anyone who wishes to call forth a memory always first looks for a thread on which it hangs through association of ideas. Fundamentally, our immediate verbal memory, that is our memory of words that is not mediated by mnemonic devices, and with this our entire linguistic capacity, rests on immediate association of ideas. In general, the thought process within us is in actual reality not as simple as the theory of it; for all sorts of things are interrelated in it. The whole process of thought and decision seldom lies on the surface, although the author's aspire to provide an account of things to ourselves and others. Thus the mode of the Principle of Sufficient Ground that holds sway over the association of ideas and keeps it active is, in its ultimate ground, the law of motivation; for that which directs our capacity for receiving and processing sensory information.
