Experience and Abstractions

The Judicial Process is the reasoning and reflective process. It is the purely "intellectual" type of mental operation. It deals wholly in abstractions. Abstractions are constructed out of past experiences.

Consequently, the Sense-Perceptive Process furnishes the raw material, sense-perceptions or experience, for the machinery of the Judicial Process to work with.

Primary Mental Operations

In this book we shall give you a clear idea of the Sense-Perceptive Process and show you some of the ways in which an

understanding of this process will be useful to you in everyday affairs. The succeeding book will explain the Judicial Process.

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SENSATIONS AND OUR PERCEPTION OF THEM