#it % iperapli0ns of ^nhnals. 



By Prof. C. LLOYD MOKGAI^T. 



Read March 1th, 1889. 

 Abstract. 



THIS paper was in continuation of a previous com- 

 munication on senses and sense organs. Some account 

 was given of the psycliolog}^ of perception, and of the dis- 

 tinction between perception and conception. The main 

 distinction was found to lie in the fact that conceptual 

 processes involved analysis. It was held that there was- 

 no evidence to justify lis in supposing that the brutes are 

 capable of analysing the phenomena of nature. Their mental 

 operations are probably confined within the sphere of per- 

 ception. 



Defining inference as the passing of the mind from 

 something immediately given to something not given, but 

 suggested through association and experience, three stages 

 of inference were marked out : (1) habitual inference on 

 immediate perception; (2) intelligent inference in the 

 l>erceptual sphere ; and (3), rational inference, implying 

 analysis (conceptual). The inferences of animals were 

 habitual and intelligent, but not rational. 



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