ABSTRACT
Cook Wilson illustrates the difficulty of defining a science by reference to geometry. Geometry appears to indicate by contrast a further difficulty in defining the province of logic, which he does not notice. An inquiry into the province of logic can proceed only by formulating answers to the actual problems of logic. A man might start from the view, which presumably everybody holds in some form, that logic is some kind of study of thought as opposed to the objects of thought. An inquiry into the general nature of thinking therefore seems the proper starting-point for the logician. The definition of logic must depend on the answers to the problems of logic. There must be as many different views on the province of logic as there are different logics, so that if a man does not adopt a definite view on the problems of logic he has no grounds on which to base a view of its nature and province.
