Excerpt from The Laws of Thought or Formal Logic: A Brief Comprehensive Treatise on the Laws and Methods of Correct Thinking This book, then, is not a Psychology. It does not discuss the nature of the soul or of its faculties. It merely enumerates the principal acts of the intellect; and describes them as far as is necessary for the pur pose of this book, which is to lay down briefly and clearly the process of right thinking. This requires no encroachment upon the field of psychology. Questions which Should be discussed later on, in the course of philosophical studies, if introduced into an outline of correct thinking, only retard progress: firstly, because they are distracting; but especially because the mind is not prepared for them. Even after long discussions they are not understood by one who is just entering on the study of philosophy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.