The mind at work : a handbook of applied psychology / edited by Geoffrey Rhodes.

Date:
1914
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Credit: The mind at work : a handbook of applied psychology / edited by Geoffrey Rhodes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    as a mental fact, and with its process as a part of mental activity. The question for Psychology is, How do we think ? What do we do when we think ? while Logic is concerned with the question, how to think rightly. To Psychology fallacious reasoning is as interesting as valid inference; thought, not the truth of thought, being the object of its inquiry. Psychology assumes its subject-matter, the “ I ” of Descartes’ “ Cogito, ergo sum,” and the world as commonly understood, endeavouring to ascertain how we become conscious of ourselves and this world, in what manner we resolve the Universe into “Self,” and “TVoZ-Self,” “ I,” and all that is without the “ I.” This marks the distinc- tion between Psychology and Metaphysics (or, more strictly, epistemology) which seeks to explain the world and to discover the ultimate construction of reality. From one of the physical sciences, Physiology, with which Psychology has very close relation- ship, it needs to be clearly distinguished. Physi- ology deals with the machinery of personality, the physical processes of behaviour, the nerves, muscles, cells, and tissue, which are the material clothing, the means of action and communication of the individual. But it is not concerned with these as manifesting behaviour, or as representing the reaction of personality to its environment.