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interdependent, complementary, alternative, relative, parallel, 

 and distantly related or seemingly unrelated static and dynamic 

 facts, in or between habits as wholes, or in or between parts 

 of those wholes. 



(y) Compare habits under varied conditions, including those 

 most similar and dissimilar. 



(k) Determine the degree of a habit's relation to closely, less 

 closely, and distantly connected phenomena in order to reach 

 the most comprehensive relevant statement. 



(/) Ascertain the degree of the relations of habits to psycho- 

 logy in general and its applications, to the sciences imme- 

 diatelyand those more distantly related to psychology, to 

 the sciences and the arts generally, and to the social sciences 

 and their corresponding practical activities. 



(m) Lastly. Furnish, after the fullest investigation, the tersest, 

 most lucid, most definite, and most comprehensive statement of 

 the peculiar nature of habit, which approaches to complete exact- 

 ness and is offered as far as possible in mathematical form. 



And in respect of the aim of the investigation, it is neces- 

 sary, in pursuance of the table of Primary Categories, to 

 determine the Material Aspects (Elementals, or precise funda- 

 mental sensory and other mental data relating to the nature 

 of habits; Constituents, or the precise static and dynamic 

 elements, materials, and parts of a habit, and their precise 

 disposition, connection, and relative homogeneity or hetero- 

 geneity; Form, or the precise form of a habit; Dependence, or 

 the precise dependence of habits on leading and other accom- 

 panying phenomena; Action and Cause, or the precise chief 

 causes and effects of habits; Resemblances, or the precise 

 degree and nature of the resemblances subsisting between 

 habits and between habits and related phenomena; Classifica- 

 tion, or the precise methodical classification of the facts col- 

 lected and their subsumption under a larger classificatory 

 scheme; Position, or precise comparative position of habits 

 within the class or classes in which they fall, and precise 

 comparison of the constituents of different habits; Differentiae, 

 or the precise leading and other differentia, of habits, the 

 ascertainment of the leading differentiae being the primary 

 object of. an investigation; Details, or the precise secondary 

 aspects or details relating to habits and of interest to the 

 inquirer; Worth, or the precise utilisation, application, reproduc- 

 tion, value, quality, appreciation, desire, liking, preference, love, 

 and enjoyment, and their opposites, of habits ; Description, or 

 precise nomenclature, terminology, and statements in connec- 

 tion with habits) and the Modal Aspects (comprising important 

 items pertaining to Quantity, Time, Space, Consciousness, Degree, 

 State, Change, and Personal Equation). 1 



1 On the nature of habit, see the author's Mind of Man, and for an 

 analysis based on the table of Primary Categories, 102. 



