Kant's "Logic" was published in 1800, as a compendium of his lectures. In his class, Kant himself assigned a compendium of lectures published by Meier from his notes drawn from the class taught by the rationalist determinist, Christian Wolff. Curiously, Wolff is barely mentioned [23, 53]. The Introduction admits the use of Wolff's "Logic" and that it is "the best we possess" [11], but he accuses Wolff of having a "special dogmatic method", and a reference to making cognitions distinct only by analysis [53] is inaccurate and irrelevant. In fact, Kant adopts -- and expands -- the heretical determinism of the Wolffians. See the first sentence, and at 64, noting the absence of voluntariness in the will, judgments adopted by prejudices.

Kant begins "Everything in nature, whether in the animate or inanimate world, take place according to rules, although we do not always know the rules." He defines Logic as a science of the right use of reason according how the understanding empirically thinks and ought to think. [6] He divides Logic into its Analytic and Dialectic forms, showing how they are "applied". Then he presents an essay on philosophy and philosophizing, and the problems of this "science" [12] and launches into a "short sketch" of a history of philosophy.

The sketch does not directly pertain to Logic. He credits the Greeks with the first and finest cultivation of rational knowledge, beginning with Thales, the Ionic mathematician [18].

Completing a review of the Eleatic and Pythagorean schools, Kant introduces Socrates and his disciples. Curiously, when he gets to the Romans -- "There were no natural philosophers among the Romans except Pliny the Elder" [22]--he omits Lucretius.

The Notes by Coleridge -- "This appears to be obscurely stated." [98]