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1908 Nov 13
Logic
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the Interpreter may please to select, if it be in the collection
of all masses of blood is in the collection of all red things. But
is that the form in which we necessarily think the assertion? That
seems to me to be doubtful, or more than doubtful.

I. That is very truth; but the gist of our studies, the sole point
that we aim at, except as secondary, is whether or not one truth
follows from another. Now this depends on what the fact is that
our assertions represent and not on the form of the thinking. That
we may leave to be studied by psychologists. For whatever follows
from all blood is red follows from the fact, in whatever form it be
it be thought, and if all blood is red follows from any other assertion
every form of thinking it follows or none. That is the logical point
of view, which has been missed very often since Wundt's Vorlesungen

1908 Nov 12
Logic
38

the Interpreter may please to select, if it be in the collection
of all masses of blood is in the collection of all red things. But
is that the form in which we necessarily think the assertion? That
seems to me to be doubtful, or more than doubtful.

I. That is very truth; but the gist of our studies, the sole point
that we aim at, except as secondary, is whether or not one truth
follows from another. Now this depends on what the fact is that
our assertions represent and not on the form of the thinking. That
we may leave to be studied by psychologists. For whatever follows
from all blood is red follows from the fact, in whatever form it be
it be thought, and if all blood is red follows from any other assertion
every form of thinking it follows or none. That is the logical point
of view, which has been missed very often since Wundt's Vorlesungen