The art of logical thinking and reasoning

THE ART OF LOGICAL THINKING Reasoning is defined as: “The act, process or art of exercising the faculty of reason; the act or faculty of employing reason in argument; argumentation, ratiocination; reasoning power; disputation, discussion, argumentation.” By the employment of the reasoning faculties of the mind we compare objects presented to the mind as precepts or concepts, taking up the “raw materials” of thought and weaving them into more complex and elaborate mental fabrics which we call abstract and general ideas of truth. This book points out the methods and principles of correctly using the reasoning faculties of the mind, in a plain, simple manner, devoid of useless technicalities and academic discussion. William Walker Atkinson was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought movement. He is the author of the pseudonymous works attributed to Theron Q. Dumont and Yogi Ramacharaka. He wrote an estimated 100 books, all in the last 30 years of his life. His works have remained in print more or less continuously since 1900. He had become interested in Hinduism. Atkinson was a prolific writer, and his many books achieved wide circulation among New Thought devotees and occult practitioners.