Joseph Dietzgen: Logic

Joseph Dietzgen was german philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on logic.
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“Adherents of formal logic may be compared to a maker of porcelain dishes who would contend that he was simply paying attention to the form of his dishes, pots, and vases, but that he did not have anything to do with the raw material.”

Joseph Dietzgen

Letter 3
Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)

“My logic deserves its proletarian qualification for the reason that it requires for its understanding the overcoming of all prejudices by which the capitalist world is held together.”

Joseph Dietzgen

Letter 1
Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)

“Logic aims to instruct the human mind as to its own nature and processes; it will lay bare the interior working of our mind for our guidance. The object of the study of logic is thought, its nature, and its proper classification.”

Joseph Dietzgen

Letter 2
Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)

“It is with logic as it is with other sciences. They draw wisdom from the mysterious source of plain experience. Agriculture, e. g., aims to teach the farmer how to cultivate the soil; but fields were tilled long before any agricultural college had begun its lectures. In the same way human beings think without ever having heard of logic. But by practice they improve their innate faculty of thought, they make progress, they gradually learn to make better use of it. Finally, just as the farmer arrives at the science of agriculture, so the thinker arrives at logic, acquires a clear consciousness of his faculty of thought and a professional dexterity in applying it.”

Joseph Dietzgen

Letter 2
Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)