Project Gutenberg 2010-01-31 Public domain in the USA. 65 Haslam, John 1764 1844 On the Nature of Thought Or, The act of thinking and its connexion with a perspicuous sentence Produced by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) "On the Nature of Thought" by John Haslam, M.D. is a scientific publication written in the early 19th century, specifically in 1835. In this work, Haslam explores the intricacies of human thought and its profound relationship with language, arguing that thought primarily manifests in the formation of clear and coherent sentences. He delves into the physiological nature of thought, suggesting that understanding language is essential for articulating and thus comprehending thought itself. In the book, Haslam contends that while traditional philosophical approaches have focused heavily on abstract ideas divorced from language, true intellectual progress relies on the use of words as the fundamental medium of thought. He discusses how thoughts are constructed and communicated through language, emphasizing the roles of perception and sensation in forming ideas and how these ideas are inadequate on their own to constitute thought. The work serves as a critique of earlier metaphysical theories that have failed to adequately account for the connection between words and thought, positing that a genuine understanding of language will enhance intellectual faculties and lead to clearer reasoning and expression. Overall, Haslam’s essay invites readers to reconsider the essence of their thinking processes and the vital importance of language in framing their understanding of the world. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Thought and thinking BF Text Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics Browsing: Psychiatry/Psychology Browsing: Religion/Spirituality/Paranormal 98278 98287 2024-09-13T08:40:39.606709 2023-09-13T13:15:36.235644 text/html text/html 96688 2021-01-06T02:42:33 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 35068 2021-01-06T02:42:33 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 83067 2024-09-13T08:40:43.275712 application/epub+zip 82454 2024-09-13T08:40:40.869693 application/epub+zip 82453 2024-09-13T08:40:40.073728 application/epub+zip 169036 2024-09-13T08:40:45.131682 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 156037 2024-09-13T08:40:42.755695 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 176606 2022-09-14T10:26:57.272244 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 86040 85834 2024-09-13T08:40:39.345711 2023-09-13T13:15:35.945650 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 85973 2021-01-06T02:42:33 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 32351 2021-01-06T02:42:33 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 85978 2021-01-06T02:42:33 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 32323 2021-01-06T02:42:33 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20297 2024-09-13T08:40:45.257681 application/rdf+xml 13144 2024-09-13T08:40:40.418727 image/jpeg 3776 2024-09-13T08:40:40.244699 image/jpeg 80859 2024-09-13T08:40:39.615717 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia