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Logic 87 Logic hardly experiential

states of things.
Unlike the special sciences it is not obliged to resort to experience for the support of the laws it discovers and enunciates for the reason that those laws are merely conditional not categorical.
The normative character of the science consists precisely in that condition attached to its laws.
The only purpose for which it is obliged to resort to experience is to establish a few facts without which there could be no motive for its inquiries and these facts are so extremely universal and atmospheric that no little acumen is required to make sure that they are anything more than empty formulae or at most hypotheses.
Logic is obliged to suppose (it need not assert) that there is knowledge embodied in some form and that there is inference in the sense that one embodiment of knowledge affects another.
It is not obliged even so much as to suppose that there is consciousness.