Wo nS A ar li | — N ~~ Ww PECCNDABMBIWER ~-—- Lesson Pp! . ; v we < N 2 Oy #7 7 / ’, Rae (fA 7 Loces 7 Frew (Sigg, J. G. Machen--- "..... predominently pagan" -- Prescott 12 7 Why? The present intellectual and moral chaos. f-evident truths ( "innate ideas" explained ) Born with the cavacity for “originating these ideas upon occasion of receiving sensations. (Every efrect has some cause." "The cauge mist be adequate to produce the effect.” The body is the. only mediwg through which. the mind and. the soul are developed for the nphuildins of character... ll. H., 130. --- Cady, 1050, "Inference «.." The simplest kind of a thought is a JUDGILNT. Tiiis is the action of the mind in interpreting sensations or mental states. 9 : Kinds of Judgments “le self-evident, necegsary.juadgments. They are the anaversally accepted truths ” assumed by all mankind as the foundations of all thinking 2. Judgments based gn experience. J iN Poggibilities of error: via Ko Tae TN We hprtar = nL A. When the mind is not work cing nofmally-— diseased, drugs, etc. B. The External conditions may be abnormal. Under a mercury vapor lamp all "red" objects aprear "blue." Cs The mind lacks knowledge of all the facts concerned, and a false Judgment may be made based on the insufficient data. a then, the mind does not follow logical methods. ... logical fallacies. Concepts...... Conceptual reasoning’ .... r-.asoning about classes of objects. Abstract ideas. When we make judgments about previously made judgments we are doing conceptual reasoning. BANGER OF. ERROR. "Drawings an inference.” The farther we get away from Jud ments based directly npon experience, the more liable we are to error. "Thus truth while ahsolute and universally applicable, ig difficult of attainment, and often geend t0 involve contradictions with other known truth." Hamilton, 26. SUBSECTIVE JD OBJECTIVES IETHUDS, Be. Be 30 = Af "Error arises ....from the commaitagtion of “What is subjective with what is objective in thought." Hamilton. "There seems to be a natural tendency of the human mind to regard the children of the imagination as real things, ..... Floyd Hamilton, 27. I. Reifying the abstract. II. A Priori reasoning IIT. Drawing conclusiong from insufficient data, minmping $0 a conclusion.” | <9 IV. The coloring which our feelings or our emotions--- love or hatred-- give to our reasoning processes. | Hamilton, paragradh foot of v. 28.