ABSTRACT
Scientific thinking is controlled and directed thinking; it is essentially methodical. Controlled thinking in so far as it is successful issues in the organization of facts originally apprehended as fragmentary, disconnected, or, it may be, discordant. The vague word "fact" has been used, since it is peculiarly appropriate to the type of order that is most apparent at the beginning of scientific inquiry. The relevance of the subject of order to systematic inquiry may, then, be regarded as evident. Scientific thinking essentially consists in the organization, or co-ordination, of the facts with which it deals. The sciences are orderly branches of knowledge. Science has been described as organized common sense. There is required in addition a certain kind of attitude to the facts and a certain kind of predominantly logical method. It is for this reason that the student of logic is concerned with science. The scientist considers particular facts only in order to obtain generalizations of increasing abstractness.
