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.