| Summary: | "It is the aim of this work to consider thought as a reality, to approach it as any work of true science approaches its material. It first discusses the relations that make up the substance of actual thought. It then analyzes thought into its elements, and follows it into its fundamental divisions. It shows the methods of each of these, the kind of argument, and the degree of certainty of which it admits, its dangers and its safeguards, and how all of these divisions are the parts of a common whole. And, finally, it considers thought in its completeness. It seeks to determine its limits and its scope, and to that end it considers some of the actual problems with which thought has to contend, so far as the possibility of their solution depends upon or illustrates the nature and limits of thought itself. Such is at least the plan of the present work; and without regard to the success or failure of its execution, such, I am confident, must be, in general, the plan of any true system of logic; or, if the true meaning and use of this term should be made a matter of dispute, such must be, in general, the plan and scope of any work that shall treat thought as an object of scientific study"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).
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