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Logic 68

Herbert made a statement very nearly correct when he said that a thought (Begriff) in the sense in which alone logic deals with thoughts is not a thinking but that which a thinking brings before the mind.
My only objection to this is that what the logician call a thought if he uses that mode if expression cannot with pertinence signify even what is brought before the mind in thinking. If it be so brought before the mind in thinking.
If it be so brought before the mind (which seems improbable) it is of no concern to the logician.
Logic deals with the relations of knowledge and with arguments or inferences.
It may be that knowledge cannot be realized without somebody thinks something corresponding to it in the same sense in which color cannot be realized unless something sees it.
"Full many a flower is born to