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Revival: The Psychology of Reasoning (1923)

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This Book owes its origin to the indefinable sense of uneasiness and discontent into which I was thrown by the perusal of some of the best treatises on Logic. These treatises had failed to explain the nature of the logical or reasoning faculty, though purporting to indicate the laws which govern its proper functioning. Even the work of John Stuart Mill, which still remains in my opinion the best,... Read more

Chapter I On the Mnemonic Origin and Nature of Affective Tendencies

Chapter II Attention

Part I: Affective Conflict and Unity of Consciousness

Chapter III Attention

Part II: Vividness and Connection

Chapter IV What is Reasoning

Chapter V The Evolution of Reasoning

Part I: From Concrete reasoning to Abstract Reasoning

Chapter VI The Evolution of Reasoning

Part II From Intuition to Deduction

Chapter VII The Higher Forms of Reasoning

Part II: Mathematical Reasoning in its Phases of symbolic condensation and symbolic inversion