Full Idea
Every attempt to understand anything at least hopes that the very objects of study themselves are subject to a logic more or less identical with that which we employ.
Gist of Idea
Our research always hopes that reality embodies the logic we are employing
Source
Charles Sanders Peirce (Reasoning and the Logic of Things [1898], VIII)
Book Reference
Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Reasoning and the Logic of Things', ed/tr. Ketner,K.L. [Harvard 1992], p.257
A Reaction
The idea that external objects might be subject to a logic has become very unfashionable since Frege, but I love the idea. I'm inclined to think that we derive our logic from the world, so I'm a bit more confident that Peirce.