ABSTRACT
The quasi-grammatical inquiries that arise in the course of Cook Wilson’s logic are three in number: a study of the general nature of statement; quantity, quality, relation, and modality; and the study of the linguistic representation of the subject-attribute relation. Actual grammar passes by those quasi-grammatical inquiries that Cook Wilson shews to be necessary to logic, and confines itself to historical considerations that have no relevance thereto. In the first place, grammar in its ordinary sense as a historical study is quite different in character from logic and not necessary to it. The method of logic is not historical but reflective. The knowledge of the forms that thought necessarily imposes on all languages is an important guide to the nature of thought itself, which is the object of the logician’s study. And this knowledge may justly be called grammar, although it has not the historical character that distinguishes most actual grammar.
