[3] Mill, System of Logic, Introduction, § 5.
[ [4] Locke, Of the Conduct of the Understanding, first paragraph.
[5] In another place he says: "Men's prejudices and inclinations impose often upon themselves.... Inclination suggests and slides into discourse favorable terms, which introduce favorable ideas; till at last by this means that is concluded clear and evident, thus dressed up, which, taken in its native state, by making use of none but precise determined ideas, would find no admittance at all."
[ [6] The Conduct of the Understanding, § 3.
[ [7] Essay Concerning Human Understanding, bk. IV, ch. XX, "Of Wrong Assent or Error."
[ [8] Hobhouse, Mind in Evolution, p. 195.
[9] A child of four or five who had been repeatedly called to the house by his mother with no apparent response on his own part, was asked if he did not hear her. He replied quite judicially, "Oh, yes, but she doesn't call very mad yet."
[10] People who have number-forms—i.e. project number series into space and see them arranged in certain shapes—when asked why they have not mentioned the fact before, often reply that it never occurred to them; they supposed that everybody had the same power.
[11] Of course, any one subject has all three aspects: e.g. in arithmetic, counting, writing, and reading numbers, rapid adding, etc., are cases of skill in doing; the tables of weights and measures are a matter of information, etc.
[12] Denoting whatever has to do with the natural constitution and functions of an individual.