Kant's "Logic" — and an Eon update

From the translator's introduction to Immanuel Kant's textbook of philosophy and logic (first published in 1800 as "Immanuel Kant's Logic: A Manual for Lectures" and now available in an inexpensive Dover edition as simply "Logic"):

The time will certainly come in philosophy when the one-sided 
emphasis on symbolic manipulations will be overcome and logic 
will be seen in its totality.

and on the next page:

The pretensions of modern logic, such as its simplification of
existence into a sign or the extension of a sign into metaphysics,
are foreign to [Kant's logic.]

I mainly bought this book because it supposedly helps you understand Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, but it looks like it may be a fascinating read in and of itself. And its notion of logic seems quite different from what I've been reading elsewhere in Russell, Wittgenstein, Boole, and so on. I've been looking for a book to "settle into" and spend some time studying—perhaps something meant for students is a good idea.

Eon update: inching toward a 1.0 release. I'm writing a detailed specification and manual in texinfo.

Author: David O'Toole <dto@gnu.org>

Date: 2009-11-18 03:47:48 EST

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