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[catalogued under 5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 3. Value of Logic]

Full Idea

Logic teaches us how to order and connect our thoughts.

Gist of Idea

Logic teaches us how to order and connect our thoughts

Source

Gottfried Leibniz (New Essays on Human Understanding [1704], 3.10)

Book Reference

Leibniz,Gottfried: 'New Essays on Human Understanding', ed/tr. Remnant/Bennett [CUP 1996], p.343


A Reaction

Leibniz had a higher opinion of logic than contemporaries like Locke. The question is whether logic can actually teach us better order than we could otherwise manage, or whether it just describes what most thinkers do.