ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates the contrast between unreflective and reflective thinking as the latter occurs in ordinary experience. At first the man was not attending to his sense-impressions; nor was his thinking consciously controlled. The chapter possess a considerable amount of knowledge relevant to the situations within which called upon to act in ordinary life. It distinguishes between reflective thinking and idle reverie. LOGIC, in the most usual and widest sense of the word, is concerned with reflective thinking. Simple as these two illustrations are, they suffice to show how thinking essentially consists in solving a problem. The first was a practical problem, namely, how to reach a place of safety. The second was a problem arising out of the perception of something unexpected in a familiar situation. In the strictest sense, in which "to think" means "to think logically", some people never think, and no one is always thinking even when he appears to be doing so.
