Chapter 9

Thought

Abstract

Thought is the reflection process of objective reality, which constitutes the advanced stage of human cognition.

Keywords

Thought; hieratical model of thought; deductive inference; inductive inference; abductive inference; analogical inference; causal inference

Thought is the reflection process of objective reality, which constitutes the advanced stage of human cognition. Thought provides knowledge about the characteristics, connections, and relations of the essence of objective reality and realizes the transformation from phenomenon to essence in the process of cognition. Different from feeling and perception, that is, from the direct perceptual reflection process, thought is the indirect reflection of reality through complex ...

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