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ing inquiry, initiated in the previous stage, as to the real character and contents of what is imposed on it from without through the assimilation of the present sensation and its comparison as well with the other past but similar sensations, revived in the mind according to the laws of association and concomitant detection of the points of identity and difference between present and past sensations.
tive Stage.
Then follows the re-integration of the (iv) Recogni- present sensation along with other sensations, received in some past time and now revived in our consciousness according to the law of contiguity. In this stage of avaya (a), the presentative element which is known as sensation is fused with other elements, represented in the consciousness; and thus there results the recognition of the object, more definitely expressed in such vocabularies as this and not that.
tive or con
The last stage in the present perceptual (v) Reflec- elaboration is Dharand (IT) through the ceptual processes of which we are by a natural and coStage. herent train of thought led to reflect that sensation reveals qualities of things. But sensations
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