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Kant & the Science of Logic by Huaping Lu-Adler

Melissa Merritt considers the logic of Immanuel Kant.

It is well known that Immanuel Kant wrote the Critique of Pure Reason to establish metaphysics as a science. At the outset of the Critique, Kant considers what this effort might learn from successful examples of scientific inquiry – mentioning logic first of all, which he claims has been a science since the time of Aristotle. Logic had a relatively easy time finding the ‘sure path’ of a science, since it deals only with the pure form of thought, abstracting from “all objects of knowledge” (Critique, p.ix). But metaphysics is concerned with matters of fact, and cannot make this abstraction.

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