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oning as it often is in selfcontrolled conduct, these resolutions are not very prominent phenomena.
Owing to this circumstance, the efficient determination of our nature which causes us to reason in each case as we do, has less relation to resolutions than to logical norms.
The act itself is, at the instant, irresistible in both cases.
But immediately after it is subjected to self-criticism, by comparison with a previous standard, which is always the norm, or rule, in the case of reasoning, although in the case of outward conduct no are often content to compare the act with the resolution.
In the case of general conduct, the lesson of satisfaction or dissatisfaction is frequently not much taken to heart and little influences future conduct.
But in the case of reasoning an inference which