Top Highlights

• how mind reduces the variegated world of experience to an underlying set of manageable conceptual categories.
• Thinking, for all that it benefits from acquired knowledge, is not the acquisition of knowledge, but is its deployment in the interest of solving problems.
• We are concerned throughout with the discovery and creation of order in man’s cognitive life.
• thinking operated not on stimuli to which it was a response—as, say, in conditioning or in association—but required, rather, a processing of information.
• carrying out an inferential task,