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Logic 84 The required the propedentic to logic not psychological

man would embark on any enterprise without first considering whether and how it could possibly suceed?
Nor can I deny that the theory of cognition is today one of the pearls of scientific psychology.
But I contend that that propedentic that is wanted for logic has no more to do with the psychological theory of cognition than logic itself is concerned with the psychical process of thinking.
Even less were there room for less since the psychological theory substantially ends where consciously controlled thought begins with which alone logic has even an indirect connection.

It is true that students of Erkenntnisslehre say emphatically that it is not psychology.
Some call it psychologico-metaphysical.
Others deny it has any psychology in it.
Benno Erdmann himself a psychologist formulates the problem of Erkenntnisslehre as follows: