Psychology and logic. Volume 2 / J. R. Kantor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kantor, J. R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Behaviorism (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 359 pages)

Other Title:

Psychology and logic

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Principia Press, 1950.

Summary:

"The chapters of the present volume demonstrate the essential place in various logical situations of (1) concrete specific operations and (2) the things, events, and relations which constitute the raw materials for (3) systemic products. In many instances, too, we clarify (4) the types of instruments employed in system construction. The indispensability of these four factors is amply exemplified in the investigation of system products (chap. 15), as well as in many other chapters. It is only to be expected that the emphasis of the four factors varies with the specific topics treated. For example, in Chapters 13, and 14 in which we study abstracting, generalizing, defining, and classifying operations, the focal point of observation is the logician engaged in system building. By comparison, Chapter 16 describes the instruments necessary for constructing systems-- namely, models, schemata, and formulae. In the chapters on categories (17) and universals (18) we show that these intellectual products constitute, on the one hand, system components which may be analyzed out of, and separated from, given systems and, on the other, tools useful in logical construction. The seven remaining chapters (19-25) comprise the more strictly applied materials of the volume. These chapters serve their verification function by displaying the contrast between the conventional logical and interbehavioral approaches in the treatment of causation (19), laws of thought (20), probability (21-22), measurement (23-24), and the perspectives of logic (25). Outstanding are the differentiations revealed in logical and scientific results when classical mentalistic psychology, which has paralleled the transcendent philosophies of historical absolute and universal logic, is set aside in favor of interbehavior with things under specific circumstances"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).

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