Note 22 — Chapter II

Loc. cit., pp. 397-399. Allusion may also be here conveniently made to an interesting and suggestive work by another French writer, M. Binet (La Psychologie du Raisonnement, 1886). His object is to show that all processes of reasoning are fundamentally identical with those of perception. In order to do this he gives a detailed exposition of the general fact that processes of both kinds depend on “fusions” of states of consciousness. In the case of perception the elements thus fused are sensations, while in the case of reasoning they are perceptions—in both cases the principle of association being alike concerned.