The mind is only a mirror of nature, and thought is correct only to the extent that it mirrors the logic of the external world. Euclid, Euler and all the others discovered and put into words things that were already there. Reasoning and thinking involves manipulation, according to established rules, of symbols which are abstract representations of the real external world. By contrast, the experiential view sees concepts as a product of individual and collective human experience. Thought does not exist without a thinker.
Concepts have existence only in the mind.
Its laws were invented to help make sense of the universe, and are descriptive, not prescriptive. Reasoning and thinking are imaginative in that those concepts which are not directly grounded in experience employ metaphor and mental imagery. Thought and concepts have gestalt properties. They have structures that go beyond putting together building blocks. It is logical, consistent and beautiful.