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The Psychological Laws of Problem Solving

By James Bodenham

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This book is not a useless dictionary or semi-dictionary of phrases or puns to be used in hypothetical solution-cases. It is a study and exposition, conduced in the simplest language, of the |general| laws of underlying[1] the psychological processes by which solutions of problems are obtained, so that by a simple observance of them and training in their observance, the reader can render himself apt to become a competent problem solver.

Problems, as here the word is used, are of 3 kinds:

(1) Problems proper, containing a fixed solution to be found – such as pictures to be deciphered into one certain meaning.

(2) Skills contests, such as “Samples” Ballots, etc, which consist in drawing up phrases[2] 

(3) Half-chance contests – such as guessing who will win, lose or draw on a Certain nº of e.g. future turns to play on a certain date.

[1] |general| ^/mental\ laws of underlying ^/governing\

[2] (2) Skills contests, such as “Samples” Ballots, etc, which consist in drawing up phrases 

^{/(2) Those which depend on letters}

    ^{Those which depend on slogans}

    ^{Those which depend on sense.\}