ABSTRACT
The accepted twentieth-century view within analytic philosophy concerning the role of logic in German idealist thought was neatly and powerfully summed up by Russell: the new conception of logic initiated by Frege consigned to history Kant and his idealist successors such as Hegel, because it showed the logical errors at the centre of that approach. It was the inability of idealism's presupposed Aristotelian syllogistic logic to deal with relations, and its narrow conception of judgement as the simple categorical predication of concept to object that had spawned the absurdity of the 'absolute' as the ultimate truth, the ultimate object of all predications.1
