Having shown how incipient concepts arise as the strong, common nodes of reproduced series of similar representations, he proceeds to show how, given such nodular representations, they can be definitely discriminated into subject and predicate, viz. a judgment (Stout 1888b: 478). He observes that the assimilation of a new sensation to earlier, similar representations can be regarded as (analogous to) a judgment of a crude psychological, if not of a logical sort: 