Excerpt from A Treatise on the Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Psychological Theory of Reasoning, Showing the Relativity of Thought to the Thinker, of Recognition to Cognition, the Identity of Presentation and Representation, of Perception Object of t/ze Work - The object of this work has not been to present to the public a literary work as suck, but to elaborate the theory of the principles of thought or intuitive mental representation which I have already offered to the public under the title of an Essay on the Philosophy of self-con sciousness, ' 'so as to facilitate its assimilation by the mind of the student, and above all to exhibit their necessary synthesis in reflective reasoning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.