HYPOTHESIS:
nature of, VII, 143-83;
unequal stress commonly laid on its origin, structure, and function,
143-5;
relation of data and hypothesis strictly correlative, 145, 152, 168;
as predicate, 146, 183;
negative and positive sides of, 146, 155;
came to be recognized with rise of experimentalism, 159;
and test, 174, 175, 177 ff.;
origin of, 170, 171 ff.;
supposition and, 178;
interdependence of formation and test of, 182.
IDEA:
continuous with fact, 9, 10, 12;
distinction from fact, 13, 110;
Lotze's confusion regarding, 31, 32, 41, 65;
association of, 33;
contrast with datum, 52-4;
functional conception of, 70, 112 ff.;
objective validity of, 72-5;
as entire content of judgment, 119;
existential aspect of, 97, 99 ff., 113;
in relation to reference, 97 ff., 103, 129;
representational theory of, 100 ff., 113 ff., 141, 347 ff., 372 ff.;
universality of, 97 ff., 113 ff.;
as not referred to reality, 97 ff.;
as forms of control, 129;
function in judgment, 153, 154;
distinguished from image, 183-93;
distinction criticised, 199-202;
problems accompanying discovery of, 341;
in Greek thought, 342;
instrumental and representative functions of, 346 ff., 372 ff.;
purposive character of, 347 ff.;
external and internal meaning of, 347 ff.;
Royce's absolute system of, 348;
triple relation to purpose in Royce's account, 349 ff.;
logical _versus_ memorial, 351;
in relation to fact and reality, 379 ff.;
(see Hypothesis, Image, Predicate).
IDEAS:
Platonic, 247.
IMAGE:
as merely fanciful, 53;
in relation to meaning, 54;
place of, in judgment, 154;
distinction from idea, 189-93;
distinction criticised, 199-202;
as direct and indirect stimulus, 195-7.
IMAGERY:
empirical criteria of, 186;
function of, 187;
as representative, 186-8, 194;
psychological function of, 193-7;
logical function of, 198, 199.
IMMEDIATE:
as related to mediation, 342, 350 ff.
IMPRESSION:
Lotze's definition of, 27, 28, 29, 32;
objective determination of, 30, 31;
objective quality of, 31, 68;
as psychic, 53;
as transformed by thought into meanings or ideas, 67 ff.;
(see Idea, Meaning, Sensation).
INDETERMINATE:
as quality of finite experience, 364.
INDUCTION:
Bacon's view of, 157;
by enumeration and allied processes, 171;
and habit, 176;
_versus_ deduction, 211, 212.
INFERENCE:
Lotze's view of, 60;
in relation to judgment, 117.
INSTRUMENTAL:
as character of thought, 78-82, 128, 140, 346 ff., 372 ff.;
(see Purpose).
INTERACTION:
physical, 218 ff.
INTEREST:
direction of, 205.
INVENTION:
form of deduction, 212.
JAMES, WILLIAM, 81 note, 352 note, 375.