As a logician Lotze stands among the masters.
He had no great tincture of learning, he was by no means a profound logician, and he was impulsive and emotional in the extreme - characteristics which in political matters predispose the subject to the preference of equality above all political requisites.
It is nearer to Plato's analysis of the sentence, and no logician would have gone back to it, after the Prior Analytics.
It is clear then that a man's metaphysics and psychology must colour his logic. It is accordingly necessary to the logician to know beforehand the general distinctions and principles of things in metaphysics, and the mental operations of sense, conception, memory and experience in psychology, so as to discover the processes of inference from experience about things in logic.
Nor are consciousness and linguistic analysis all the instruments of the logician.
