Distributive thinking is the description of the operations of the mind: conceiving, judging, reasoning and ordering. It is established as such in Logic or the Art of Thinking.To conceive an idea is simply to have it present in the mind, to represent an object, thanks to it, to represent this object without making the slightest judgment about it.When we have a stock of ideas, we can arrange them in pairs and compare them with each other. The result is a judgment.Reasoning is about combining judgments in such a way as to generate a new judgment that you couldn't arrive at directly.When we have a certain number of ideas, judgments and reasonings on the same subject, all we have to do is order them, that is, arrange them in the most effective way to give knowledge of the subject.Thought is then distributive at every stage of the mind's operations.