Abstract
The author tries to answer the following question: Accepting the claim that logic studies the laws of reasoning, can we consider thinking in its ontological aspect when thinking appears as some real, objective process with ontological characteristics? Logic, which claims to study the basic laws and principles of thinking, must reckon with how the being of thinking appears in this ontological interpretation. The author proceeds from the provision on the existence of three worlds: the natural world, the world of culture and the world of language. He considers the features of the world of culture and the world of language and, basing on the concept of the language due to Wilhelm von Humboldt, argues that the factor generating thinking is not biological evolution and brain formation, but evolution and formation of language. Language as a collective speech activity, real discourse is the bearer of the reason and the ontological basis of logical knowledge. It is furthermore argued that logical knowledge is not a priori knowledge, because knowledge of logical forms ultimately originates in real discourse.
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