CONTENTS

PART I
THE PROBLEM OF TRAINING THOUGHT
CHAPTER PAGE
I.[What is Thought?]1
II.[The Need for Training Thought]14
III.[Natural Resources in the Training of Thought]29
IV.[School Conditions and the Training of Thought]45
V.[The Means and End of Mental Training: thePsychological and the Logical]56
PART II
LOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS
VI.[The Analysis of a Complete Act of Thought] 68
VII.[Systematic Inference: Induction and Deduction]79
VIII.[Judgment: The Interpretation of Facts]101
IX.[Meaning: or Conceptions and Understanding]116
X.[Concrete and Abstract Thinking]135
XI.[Empirical and Scientific Thinking]145
PART III
THE TRAINING OF THOUGHT
XII.[Activity and the Training of Thought]157
XIII.[Language and the Training of Thought]170
XIV.[Observation and Information in the Trainingof Mind]188
XV.[The Recitation and the Training of Thought]201
XVI.[Some General Conclusions]214


HOW WE THINK


PART ONE: THE PROBLEM OF
TRAINING THOUGHT


CHAPTER ONE