Note 80 — Chapter IV · THE HIGHER FORMS OF ABSTRACTION. THEIR NATURE.
Frances A. (Frances Alice) Welby translation
Under the heading “Observations on General Terms” the American Journal of Psychology, III. i, p. 144 (Jan., 1890) gives the results of an investigation conducted upon 113 school children aged 13 to 18. The words being, the infinite, literature, abstraction, number, play, coldness, horror, etc., were written down, and a few moments were given the pupils to transcribe their impressions in each case.
The summarised answers are not devoid of interest, but the object of the inquiry is evidently very different from our own.