Judging is the most fundamental of all thinking, as the concept is built from a series of judgments and an inference is simply a made-over judgment.
(11) Inference.
Reasoning is the process of deriving a new judgment from a consideration of antecedent judgments. This derived judgment may be called an inference. Sometimes the term inference denotes the process of reasoning as well as the product.
Reasoning often takes the form of a syllogism.
The concept, the judgment and the inference are products arising from conjoining and disjoining notions.
(12) Some give to the thinking mind the three aspects, apprehension, judging and reasoning. Apprehension is another word for the two processes, perception and conception.
(13) The three important stages in thinking are discrimination, comparison, integration; or analysis, comparison and synthesis.
16. REVIEW QUESTIONS.
(1) Show the difference between the knowing mind and the thinking mind.
(2) Describe the process known as intuition.