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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... Ill THE RELATIONS OF LOGIC AND PSYCHOLOGY1 ARGUMENT I. Humanism as logical 'psychologist!!.' 2. It is beneficial to a Logic which has lapsed into scepticism, because it has abstracted from actual knowing. 3. Definition of Psychology as a descriptive science of concrete mental process. It can recognise cognitive values and claims, though 4 Logic must evaluate them, and thus arises out of Psychology. Impossibility of forbidding it to describe cognitive processes. 5. Definition of Logic, a normative science arising out of the existence of false claims. 6. Interdependence of the two sciences. The risks of abstracting from any psychical fact. 7. (1) Thinking depends essentially on psychological processes, such as interest, purpose, emotion, and satisfaction. 8. (2) The fundamental 'logical' conceptions, 'necessity, ' 'certainty, ' 'self-evidence, ' 'truth' are primarily psychical facts. 'Logical' certainty due to the extension of potential beyond actual purpose in thinking. 9. (3) The fundamental 'logical' operations have psychological aspects. E.g. the postulate of 'identity.' Meaning dependent on context and purpose. The actual meaning vs. the meaning per se. The problem of understanding. The 'logical' 1 The necessity of treating this subject from a Humanist point of view has long been evident to me. But it was recently borne in upon me with peculiar force by two circumstances. The first was that the excellent articles on 'Pragmatism versus Absolutism, ' published by Mr. R. F. A. Hoernle in Mind (xiv. N.S. 55 and 56), though giving the best general account of the Pragmatic movement which is extant, yet seemed to imply a serious misapprehension of the conception of Psychology which...