...group idea from the examination of individuals, is invoked when we are admonished that we must proceed from the particular to the general ; from the concrete to the abstract. As a further illustration of the method of forming concepts, the following is taken from Bergen and...

...accuracy of deductive reasoning and clearness of statement are of prime importance in geometry, the path from the particular to the general, from the concrete to the abstract, may be followed readily and with as much profit in this subject as in algebra. Concrete and inductive...

...under discussion; to describe and analyze the things which the saleswoman sees every day ; to progress from the particular to the general, from the concrete to the abstract. Methods of raising flax in Ireland are vague, but the elaborate towel or centerpiece which the salesperson...

...indefinite to the defmite. 3. Our lessons ought to start from the concrete and end in the abstract. 4. The education of the child must accord both in mode and arrangement with the education of mankind, considered historically. 5. In each branch of instruction we ought to proceed from the empirical to...

...classification corresponds exactly to the laws of reason . . . which goes from the simple to the complex, from the particular to the general, from the concrete to the abstract." (Introd., vol. i, p. 157. Italics mine to show variation in the formula.) I have long thought [writes...

...Cultivate language. 10. Proceed from the simple to the difficult, ie, from the known to the unknown, from the particular to the general, from the concrete to the abstract. 11. Synthesis before analysis — not the ordec of the subject, buj the order of nature. -L In elaborating...

...further upon this last statement. These methods which are taught to-day, such as apperception, going from the particular to the general, from the concrete to the abstract, etc., are but wide generalizations from psychical facts, they are not psychical facts themselves in...

...works from the known to the unknown, from the related to the unrelated, from the simple to the complex, from the particular to the general, from the concrete to the abstract, from practice to theory, and from theory back to practice again. Here, again, a few applications of...

...apparently, at variance with the primary rule [of proceeding from the simple to the complex], which implies that the mind should be introduced to principles through...to the general, from the concrete to the abstract.' In conformity with this principle, Pestalozzi made the actual counting of things precede the teaching...

...known to the unknown, from the near to the remote, from the simple to the complex, and, when possible, from the particular to the general, from the concrete to the abstract, from the sensible to the immaterial. 3. To omit nothing essential in the questions explained. 4. To...