With these considerations we are at the place where the find ourselves facing the problem isˇ stands: To what extent is logic, in some way, something/sublime?
      For it seemed as though a special depth – ˇa universal significan significance – belonged to logic. As though
logic
it
lay, so to speak, at the foundation of all sciences. – For ˇthe logical meditations investigation searches into ˇinvestigates the essence of a[,|l]l things.
Logic
It
ˇIt wants to get at the root of things, and ought not to
trouble
bother
about whether the things actually happening is this waych or thatˇ way. It This ˇThe logical ˇinvestigation does not arises not
out of
fromch
an interest in the facts of natur[a|e]l events, nor [r|f]rom the
urg
need of grasping
causal connections.
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connections. It springs rather But from the an effort desire our trying to understand the basis ˇfoundation, or essence, of
all that's
everything
empirical ˇexperiential.
Not however
Now
as though we were to hunt out new facts to this end ˇin order to do this we should search for new facts: ont the contrary, it is essential to our enquiry that we don't
wish
want
to learn anything new
by
in
it.
it to teach us new facts. We want to understand something which ˇalready lies ˇthere openly to the before our view eyes[.|;] [F|f]or that it's this is [w|t]hat we seem, in some sense, not ˇwe don't seem to understand.
      Augustine (Conf. XI/14): “quid est e[gr|rg]o tempus? si nemo ex me quaerat scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio.” – Dies könnte man nich You could not say this of a question in natural science (e.g.: how great is the specific
weight
gravitych
of hydrogen).
That which
What
we know when [s|n]omeone noone asks us, but
no longer
don't
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
ˇcall to our mind
.)