ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to understand the relation of logic to grammar and metaphysics. It is only after the completion of the study of logic that its relation to metaphysics can be definitely ascertained. Perhaps it is truest to say that metaphysics has, for its ultimate object and ideal, a complete understanding of reality, and that not as opposed to the thinking subject but as including the subject. Generally, science assumes the reality of objects of a knowing or perceiving subject and accepts a certain opposition between the two; these presuppositions metaphysics examines. Metaphysics is bound to raise the whole question of the nature of the relation of thought to reality and therefore an idealistic theory of reality such as Berkeley’s belongs to metaphysics and not to logic. Cook Wilson’s mature view of logic is an autonomous inquiry that is not corrected but only assisted by metaphysics.
