ABSTRACT
A surprising feature in Immanuel Kant’s list of logical laws is the appearance of the logical principle of sufficient reason. He characterizes the logical principle of sufficient reason in various ways. Johann Schultz is certainly picking up on a real theme in Kant’s writings on logic. Kant believes that formal logic results from an analysis, namely, of the actions of the faculty of the understanding. Logicians in “logic of Kant’s school” included Kant’s students, such as Johann Schultz and J. G. C. Kiesewetter, but also later logicians who wrote after Kant’s death, such as Wilhelm Traugott Krug and Wilhelm Esser. Pure general logic or formal logic is an analytic or a canon; a special logic or dialectic is an organon. This same kind of contrast was picked up by later Kantian logicians. Kant claims that logic concerns only the logical form of thinking.
