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With these considerations we
are at the place where the problem
is || stands || find ourselves facing the
problem:
To
what extent is logic something sublime || is logic, in some way,
sublime?
For it seemed as though a special depth –
a universal
significance – belonged to
logic.
As though
it || logic lay
, so
to speak, at the foundation of all sciences. –
For
logical meditations
search || the logical meditation searches into || the logical
investigation investigates the essence of a
ll
things.
It || Logic || It
wants to get at the root of things, and ought not to
bother || trouble about whether
the actual happening is this way
or that || or that || things actually happen this way or that
way.
–
It arises
not || This || The logical investigation
does not arise from || out
of an interest in the facts of
natural
events || nature, nor
from the
need of grasping || urge
to understand causal connections.
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It springs rather from
the || an effort || a desire || But
from our trying to understand the
basis || foundation, or essence, of
everything || all that's
empirical || experiential.
Not || Not
however as though
we were to hunt out new facts
to this end || in order to do this we should search for new
facts: on the contrary, it is essential to
our enquiry that we don't
want || wish to learn
anything new in || by
it. || it to teach us new facts.
We want to
understand something which already lies
there open to
our view || openly before our
eyes. For || ;
for that is what we seem, in some sense,
not || it's this that, in some sense, we seem
not || we don't seem to understand.
Augustine
(
Confessiones
XI/14): “
quid est ergo
tempus? si nemo ex me quaerat scio; si quaerenti explicare velim,
nescio.” –
You could not say this of a question in natural science
(e.g.: how great is the specific
gravity || weight
of hydrogen).
What || That which we know
when
someone ||
no one
|| no one
asks us, but
don't || no
longer know when we have to explain it, is something
which we have to
recollect. || call to our
mind. || about which we have to remind
ourselves.
(And
, obviously
, something which, for some
reason
or other, it is difficult to
recollect || recall || call
to our mind.)