Author: Arthur Lynch

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-05-23

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9780259993667

Excerpt from Principles of Psychology: The Foundation Work of the Aletheian System of Philosophy Of the great tasks within the compass of man one of the most fascinating is surely that of tracing out the course of thought, so that this may be seen from the first glimmering of intelligence to the complex web Of knowledge and reasoning that form our comprehension of the world. Since all this is contained in our thought, the suggestion arises as to whether the thought be not capable Of exhibiting its content lucidly in the modes of its experiences and processes of combination. The problem of discovering these processes and laying bare the entire mechanism might well appear so vast, and at the same time so tenuous and elusive, as to be impossible, unless indeed by favour of new methods of conducting the attack and the discovery of new forms of analysis. It is the object of the present work to show the investigations that furnish the solution. Briefly the pith of the book is the elucidation of the manner in which all complexes of thought may be shown to be built up by syntheses of certain Fundamental Processes, which are in the psychic world the analogues of the chemical elements in the physical world. Once the central problem' solved, the main position secured, I have shown a series of developments in which various great problems of psychology are dealt with in new illu mination and the work will have missed something of its purpose unless it be found to give to the reader the sense of standing at a central point of command from which he sees the development of the structural forms of thought, whether it be in the ordinary operations of the mind, or in the domain of the sciences, or in the applications wherein he may find the vast mechanical products of civilisation springing as corollaries from the delicate filaments of the thinker's mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.