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Logic 85

"What right have we to assume that ideas refer to objects out of the mind?"
(Mit welchem Rechte nehem niran dass sich das Vorgestellte iiberhaust auf ein Transsendentes bezieht?)
Certainly psychology has no dealings with objects out of the mind.
Still less has logic.
Whether or not there is at all any such thing as Reality the logician need not decide.
He cannot hide from himself any more than another man can that objects very nearly like real things there are and he cannot pretend to doubt it.
But he sees perhaps more clearly than other men that approximation to reality and absolute reality itself are two different things.
The mathematicians' i of which the square is negative unity approximates to reality.
All that it is incumbent upon the logician to learn is what inferential habits are conducive to knowledge and to positive knowledge in case there be any reality of which it is possible to have positive knowledge and