Thought and Things, Vol. 1: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought or Genetic Logic (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

James Mark Baldwin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0265783100 ISBN 13: 9780265783108

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Delve into how thought develops and gains meaning, shaping how we know the world and ourselves.

Thought and Things: a Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought presents a genetic, psychology‑based look at how knowledge moves from simple perception to complex understanding. This edition begins with an examination of how cognition grows through recognition, memory, and the meanings we attach to objects and events. It blends philosophy with early psychology to explain why our ideas endure, change, or vanish as our interests shift.

• Learn how inner interests and outer realities interact to form recognitive meanings and values.
• See how the subject–object relationship evolves into more subtle forms of thought and meaning.
• Explore how logic and judgment develop as tools for reinterpreting experience.
• Understand the balance between facts, purposes, and the place of thought in everyday knowledge.

Ideal for readers of philosophy, psychology, and the history of ideas who want a rigorous yet accessible view of how thinking changes over time.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0265783100
• ISBN 13: 9780265783108
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 293