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are conducive to such semblance of positive knowledge as we can have in case there is no perfect reality or in cae otherwise true positive knowledge is impossible.
But in order to solve even that problem he has first to ascertain in case there be any sucessful quest for knowledge what the nature of knowledge would be.
But for his purpose knowledge may be something written down in a book.

The science which Berkeley, Kant and others have seveloped and which goes by the name of the theory of cognition is an experiential or positive science.
It arms and teaches that certain things exist.
It even makes specual observations.
But the experiential element in logic is all but nil.
No doubt it is an observational science in some sense every science is that.
Even pure mathematics observes its diagrams.
But logic contents itslef like mathematics almost entirely with considering what would be the case in hypothetical