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Logic 79 Wissensschafts lehre

reason why we criticize reasoning and why we inquire whether or not a given way of proceeding from premiss to conclusion is conducive to the ascertainment of truths or the reverse.

7thly Many of the works which come under the last two heads are more particularly distinguished by regarding logic either as consisting in or as deduced from a branch of knowledge which the Germans call Erkenntrisslehre the doctrine of cognition or froma closely allied science which they call Wissenschaftslehre the doctrine of science or epistemology.
(Wissenshaftslehre is a word which does not convey a very definite idea to use.
It was J.G. Fichte who introduced it and used it as the name of a book so intensely Fichteam as to create rather unfavorable associations.
Chalybaus who had Fichteam tendencies called his logic by the same name.
So did the blegelian Kuns Fischer except that he