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Full Idea
Logic coincides with metaphysics, with the science of things grasped in thoughts.
Gist of Idea
Logic is metaphysics, the science of things grasped in thoughts
Source
Georg W.F.Hegel (Logic (Encyclopedia I) [1817], §24), quoted by Stephen Houlgate - An Introduction to Hegel 02 'Logic'
Book Ref
Houlgate,Stephen: 'An Introduction to Hegel' [Blackwell 2005], p.44
A Reaction
Not a very clear definition, given that thinking about a table appears to be a 'thing grasped in thought'. Presumably it refers to things which can only be grasped in thought, which seems to make it entirely a priori.