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diff --git a/books/psicologia/psychology-of-intelligence.mdwn b/books/psicologia/psychology-of-intelligence.mdwn index b4a3538..a725a4c 100644 --- a/books/psicologia/psychology-of-intelligence.mdwn +++ b/books/psicologia/psychology-of-intelligence.mdwn @@ -45,3 +45,28 @@ (and, no doubt, vice versa). -- page 30 + + It is true that in addition to the individual consistency of + actions there enter into thought interactions of a collective order + and consequently “norms” imposed by this collaboration. But + co-operation is only a system of actions, or of operations, car- + ried out in concert, and we may repeat the preceding argument + for collective symbolic behaviour, which likewise remains at a + level containing real structures, unlike axiomatizations of a + formal nature. + + For psychology, therefore, there remains unaltered the prob- + lem of understanding the mechanism with which intelligence + comes to construct coherent structures capable of operational + combination; and it is no use invoking “principles” which this + intelligence is supposed to apply spontaneously, since logical + principles concern the theoretical pattern formulated after + thought has been constructed and not this living process of con- + struction itself. Brunschvicg has made the profound observation + that intelligence wins battles or indulges, like poetry, in a con- + tinuous work of creation, while logico-mathematical deduction + is comparable only to treatises on strategy and to manuals of + “poetic art”, which codify the past victories of action or mind + but do not ensure their future conquests. 1 + + -- page 34 |