Rudolf Hermann Lotze

“ There can be little doubt that the distinction between the association of mental images and the definitely logical processes of the mind is far too little drawn and too loosely held by certain English writers on Logic. ”

“ His peculiar doctrine of “Values,” as distinguished from a knowledge of what is necessitated or real, his view of the general method of philosophy and of the relation in which the Theory of Cognition stands to the whole of Metaphysics, and his attitude toward philosophical Scepticism and Criticism, will doubtless receive some elucidation from the careful study of these sections.
A first draught of the translation of §§ 6-38 of the Pure Logic was made by John F. Crowell, graduate student of Philosophy in Yale University, 1885-86. The rest of the work upon the volume is by my own hand. ”

“ Notwithstanding this, his views upon some important topics under the general subject will be found very suggestive and valuable. This seems to me particularly true of the chapter on the “Formation of Concepts.” ”