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have been regrettable. It would be radically contrary to Kant's principles to base logic (in the sense in which the word is used in this present book) upon the transcendental methods.
On the contrary his whole critic of the understanding is deliberately based upon a scientific logic supposed to be already established.
It is singular that notwithstanding the gigantic logical strengthof the Critic of Pure Reasonand notwithstanding kant's explicit teaching that this hinges upon the scientific perfection of the underlying formal or ordinary logic yet he never touches this last doctrine without betraying unmistakable marks of hasty superficial study.

What has been said of the utter impracticability if any one man's actually executing the design of the Critic of the {ure Reason is a hundred-fold more true of