Whenever logic is taken as the science of thinking in general, it is thereby understood that this 'thinking' constitutes the mere form of a cognition; that logic abstracts from all content, and the so called second constitutive piece that belongs to the cognition, namely the matter, must be given from elsewhere; hence that logic, since this matter does not in the least depend on it, can give only the formal conditions of genuine knowledge, but does not itself contain real truth; or again, that logic is only the pathway to real knowledge, for the essential component of truth, the content, lies outside it.