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The first thing to be emphasized here is that we shouldn't think of judgments and their contents as something like mental contents—subjective or psychological states of a thinker's mind.
When logic is said, for instance, to be the study of the laws of thought, these laws cannot be the empirical (or observable) regularities of actual human thinking as studied in psychology; they must be laws of correct reasoning, which are independent of the psychological idiosyncrasies of the thinker.
A thinker's psychological states play characteristic causal roles, and these states (in combination with others) tend to cause the thinking being whose states they are to behave in certain ways.
What Mill does argue about the necessity of geometry and arithmetic, and, for that matter, the basic axioms of other sciences such as physics and chemistry, is that these principles, while from the point of view of their truth are inductive generalizations, are from the point of view of the thinker matters of psychological necessity.
Historically, the use of psychological analogies is especially associated with thinkers in the Latin-speaking West, particularly from Augustine onward.
Bleuler, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Pierre Janet were all significant thinkers in this period who sought to unearth the forces that underlay psychological illness in the thoughts, experiences and traumas of childhood (Ellenberger, 1970).
The change in the law will generate some discussion, presumably, as thinkers in the Richard Littlejohn cast wrap their minds around the idea that psychological abuse has more to it than telling someone she looks fat.
The work somewhat anticipates the ideas of the great thinkers of the century following his death by its emphasis on induction as a method of psychological and philosophical discovery.
Many thinkers — Marx, Freud, Durkheim — have produced natural histories of religion, arguing that it arose to serve some social or psychological function, such as, in Freud's account, the fulfillment of repressed wishes toward a father-figure.
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