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Erkenntuisslehre is necessarily largely metaphysical.
But I, for my part, cannot for an instant assent to the proposal to base logic upon metaphysics; in as much as I fully agree with Aristotle, [?uras] Scotus, Kant, and all the profoundest metaphysicians that metaphysics can, on the contrary, have no secure basis except that which the science of logic of affords.
I, therefore, take a position quite similar to that of the English logicians, beginning with Scotus thimself, in regarding this introductory part of logic, as nothing but an analysis of what kind of signs are absolutely essential to the embodiment of thought.
I call it, after Scotus,