The developed thought processes are the concept, the judgment and the inference.
(7) Just where the simplest form of thinking appears in the various activities of the knowing mind is still an undecided question. It is agreed that thinking in its developed and more complex form is found in conception, judging and reasoning.
(8) Thinking evolves from the simple to the more complex, just as life has evolved.
The child thinks in vague, indefinite wholes, while the adult thinks in clear, definite parts. The child discriminates very imperfectly while the adult discriminates accurately.
The sensation seems to be the connecting link between the feeling mind and the knowing mind, while the percept links together the knowing mind and the thinking mind.
(9) Conception is the process of thinking many notions into one class. The product of such a process is a concept. The concept stands for groups of all kinds of objects.
Conception has the two aspects of affirming connections and of building many into one. The first is the thinking side of theprocess and the second is the mark which distinguishes conception from the other thought processes.
(10) Judging is the process of conjoining or disjoining notions. Judgment is the product of judging.
Judgments conjoin and disjoin all kinds of notions.
Judging and thinking, though they closely resemble each other, are not synonomous terms. Thinking is a broader term in that connections may be established between a notion and a name for that notion.