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Conclusion 3. Need of Fixing Methodologically the General Nature 



and Relations of Phenomena 174 



Conclusion 4. Need of a Life-Time Object of Enquiry 180 



Conclusion 5. Need of a Simple Starting-Point 181 



Conclusion 6. Need of Shunning Vagueness and Over-Subtlety in an 



Enquiry 185 



Conclusion 7. Need of Recognising that Formal Rules are Barren 



and that Psychical Prejudice is Baneful 190 



Conclusion 8. Need of taking advantage of Special Scientific Methods, 

 of utilising Existing Knowledge, of having regard to 

 the Future, and of allowing for Personal Equation and 



for Training 194 



Conclusion 9. Need of Experimental Preparation in Methodology . 199 

 Conclusion 10. Need of securing the Mental, Physiological, and 

 Environmental Conditions conducive to Efficiency and 



to Waste Elimination 201 



Conclusion 11. Need of Systematically Framing Hypotheses . . . 210 



Conclusion 12. Need of Co-operation in Scientific Work 211 



Conclusion 13. Need of a Provisional Conception as to the Form 



which an Enquiry should assume 216 



PART V. WORKING STAGE. 



Section XXL PRECISE NATURE OF PROBLEM TO BE INVESTIGATED 236 



Conclusion 14. Need of Precisely Determining the Nature of the 



Problem under Investigation 236 



Conclusion 15. Need of Exact Terminology, of Conclusions in the 

 Form of Precise Definitions, and of Extreme Definite- 

 ness in Thought and Statements 242 



Section XXII. OBSERVATION . . 256 



Conclusion 16. Need of Applying the Categories; of Strenuous Mental 

 Application in the Process of Observation; and of the 

 Observations being Graded, Comprehensive, Important, 

 Numerous, Full, Rational and Relevant, Original, Auto- 

 matically Initiated, and Methodically Developed 257 



Conclusion 17. Need of Critically Examining the Reality of Alleged 



Divisions . 273 



a) Complex Facts regarded as Simple. b) Simple Facts 

 regarded as Complex. c) Environment Ignored. 

 d) Influence of Time and of Position in Space and Mind. 



Conclusion 18. Need of Keeping and Consulting Records, of Improving 

 the Memory Experimentally, of Employing the Imagi- 

 nation, and of utilising the Intelligence in its entirety 282 



Conclusion 19. Need of Ensuring Easy, Exhaustive, and Impartial 



Observation 293 



Conclusion 20. Need of Searching for the Simplest Practicable Case 296 



Conclusion 20a.-Need of Degree Determination within and between 

 Divisions, and, in this connection, need of searching 

 for Pure, Normal, Minimal, Maximal, Parallel, Distantly 

 Related, Seemingly Unrelated, Deviating, Morbid, 

 Eccentric, Border, and Transitional Instances 308 



Conclusion 206.-Need of Proceeding Dialectically, /.e., need of searching 

 in connection with any facts for what is Con- 

 tradictory, Contrary, Opposite, Common, Disparate, 

 Dependent, Interdependent, Supplementary, Alter- 

 native, Complementary, and Relative 308 



Conclusion 21. Need of Habitual Alertness in order to discover 

 Exceptional, Unobtrusive, and Unsuspected Facts, 

 and need of Unremitting Concentration in Scientific 

 Work generally 308 



