ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PROLOGUE: UNDERSTANDING CREATIVITY FROM THE GROUND UP
PART I COGNOLOGY: THE NATURE OF THE HUMAN MIND
CHAPTER ONE: MINDS
The First Aspect: Percepts
The Second Aspect: Free Will
AUTOMATIC AND NON-AUTOMATIC ACTIONS
THE CONCEPTUAL AS CHOSEN
PURPOSE
THE PRIMACY OF REALITY
THE IDEAS OF OTHER PEOPLE
KEY TERMS
Programmers
Mental and/if Physical Actions
THINKING STYLES AS MANIFESTING FREE WILL
The Perceptual/Conceptual Mix
Purposes: Focus, Evade, Drift, and Concentrate
Independence vs Conformity
Propensity to Investigate Style
The Third Aspect: The Parts of the Mind
TWO PARTS
Memory
Conscious Ideas
Subconscious Ideas
KEY TERMS
Autogrations
Intuitions
Autodeliberative
The ABC’s of Cognition
THINKING STYLES AS AUTODELIBERATIVE
Autodeliberative Mix
Autodeliberative Qualities
Autogrative Qualities
Harvesting Autogrations
CHAPTER TWO: THOUGHTS
The Fourth Aspect: The Processes of the Mind
TWO WAYS OF THINKING
KEY TERMS
Process
The Acquisitory Process
The Applicatory Process
Method
Revelation
Appliquisitive
THE ACQUISITORY PROCESS
THE APPLICATORY PROCESS
COMPLEMENTARY ROLES
Learning
Forming a Definition
Understanding a Short Story
THINKING STYLES AS MANIFESTING PROCESSES
Appliquisitive Propensities
Sound and Creative Thinking
THINKING STYLES AS INTERPLAYS WITHIN AND BETWEEN ASPECTS
The Fifth Aspect: The Products of the Mind
THE SOURCES OF CONCEPTUAL PRODUCTS
THE THREE LEVELS
Perceptual Descriptions
Concepts
Conclusions
EXAMPLES OF CONCLUSIONS
THINKING STYLES AS EXHIBITED BY PRODUCTS
Mental Health
The Human Soul
PART II HEALTHY THINKING
CHAPTER THREE: PRESCRIPTIONS
Sound Thinking
THE PRINCIPLE
THE ALTERNATIVE
THE PRESCRIPTIONS
Monitoring
Tracking
Reasoning
Placing
Creative Thinking
CREATIVITY’S TWO LEVELS
THE PRESCRIPITIONS
Imagining
Unleashing
Hypothesizing
TRIUMPH
CHAPTER FOUR: PRACTICES
Monitoring
Tracking
Reasoning
VIRTUE AND VICE
INNOCENT ERRORS
Factual
Methodological
Placing
ASCERTAINING THE CONTEXT
EXTRACTING A SOLUTION
Imagining
Unleashing
Hypothesizing
CHAPTER FIVE: RESULTS
The Past and Present
THE EBB AND FLOW OF LOGIC
Aristotle to Augustine
Augustine to Aquinas
Aquinas to America
America to Anti-Business
Anti-Business to Anti-Life
THE ULTIMATE LESSON OF HISTORY
THE ULTIMATE CRISIS
The Future: The Ultimate Renaissance
Endnotes
Glossary