It would therefore concern the origin of our cognitions of objects insofar as that cannot be ascribed to the objects; while general logic, on the contrary, has nothing to do with this origin of cognition, but rather considers representations, whether they are originally given a priori in ourselves or only empirically, merely in re spect of the laws according to which the understanding brings them into relationb to one another when it thinks, and therefore it deals only with the form of the understanding, which can be given to the repre sentations wherever they may have originated.