ABSTRACT
Attachments of a quasi-instinctive sort dominate situations in which many alternatives are otherwise possible: the great social motives of family, clan, and race. This chapter provides a discussion of "affective logic," the principles under the rule of which the great emotional preferences and interests are organised in relative independence of the organisation of the motives of knowledge, though not in actual separation from them. In the prelogical stages of knowledge, interpretation shows the lack of logical coherence and organisation. Interpretation is simply the entire meaning given to an experience, fact, event, by the consciousness which, "makes" the interpretation. Whatever intent of added meaning attaches to the bare content of fact or idea, it is in so far a personal interpretation of the fact or idea. Interpretation may be arrived at by the scientific man seated at Washington, who has before him simply the tracing of a needle on carbon paper, hearing, seeing, and feeling nothing of the physical event itself.
