ABSTRACT
Cook Wilson’s account of thinking was undertaken in order to throw light on the province of logic. And he uses that account to distinguish logic from the sciences. But it can scarcely be said that he goes on to use his account of thinking in order to determine more precisely the actual subject-matter of logic. In spite of the advance he has made in logic itself by his study of thinking, he feels, apparently, that it is still impossible to give a full account of the object of logic, and he seems to confine himself to the statement that logic should begin with the study of apprehension in general. Cook Wilson apparently considers the study of error not to be strictly logical, but necessary to logic, for he says that it ‘illustrates the necessity which logic is under of examining, in its own interests, activities and ideas which may turn out to belong themselves properly to another study or science’.
