An introductory text-book of logic - Mellone, Sydney - Rare Books at ...

12 THE GENERAL AIM OF LOGIC.
ledge, is fundamentally a mistake ; the further the student
pursues the study of modern logic the more clearly he will
see that it is so. The point of view adopted in modern logic
is, that in the formation of ideas, in judgment, in reasoning,
we have not three separate processes but a development or
expansion of one and the same process and the full ;
signifi
cance of this statement will be seen at a later stage. We
may add that the statements made earlier in this chapter
imply that there is no such thing as "simple apprehension"
as Jevons defines it. We "apprehend" or mentally take
hold of an idea, only by making judgments about a thing;
"
we form the idea of iron" through the judgments that it is
"hard," "heavy," "malleable," &c., and the idea of "iron"
is a product of such judgments.