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retaining a verbal as well as a substantial analogy with the 

 allied term general. It also serves to indicate that generic 

 ideas, or recepts, are not only ideas of class or kind, but have 

 been generated from the intermixture of individual ideas — i.e. 

 from the blended memories of particular percepts. 



My nomenclature of ideas, therefore, may be presented in 

 a tabular form thus : — 



(General, Abstract, or Notional = Concepts. 

 Complex, Compound, or Mixed = Recepts, or Generic Ideas. 

 Simple, Particular, or Concrete = Memories of Percepts.* 



♦ The more elaborate analysis of German psychologists has yielded five 

 orders instead of three ; namely, IVahrnehmting, Anschauung^ Vorstellungeriy 

 Erfahrtmgsbegriff^ and Verstandesbegriff. But for the purposes of this treatise it 

 is needless to go into these finer distinctions. 



