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which this attribute confers upon the human intellect is to be 

 regarded as a distinction of degree only, or as a distinction of 

 kind. To answer this question we must first investigate the 

 rise of self-consciousness in the only place where its rise can 

 be observed, namely, in the psychogenesis of a child.* 



* Lest there should still be any ambiguity about the numerous terms which 

 I have found it necessary to coin, I will here supply a table of definitions. 



Lower recept = an automatic grouping of percepts. 



Higher recept = pre-concept ; or a degree of receptual ideation which does not 



occur in any brute. 

 Lower concept = named recept, provided that the naming be due to reflective 



thought. 

 Higher concept = a named compound of concepts. 



The analogues of these terms are, in the matter of naming : — 



Receptual naming = denotation, which includes pre-conceptual naming. 

 Conceptual naming = denomination. 



And, in the matter of judging, the analogues are :— 



Receptual judgment = automatic, " practical," or unthinking inference. 



Pre-conceptual judgment = the higher, though still unthinking, inferences of a 

 child prior to the rise of self-consciousness. 



Conceptual judgment = true judgment, whether exhibited in denorainatiou, 

 predication, or any act of inference for which self- 

 conscious thought may be required. 



