Note 126

It should also be our task to detect a nominalism that has gone too far, possibly resulting in the discovery that a number of relations which, in addition to be logical, are also ontological, that is, metaphysical. In a certain respect Logic could depend, not only on our way of thinking, but also on the very ontological structure of Being (for example its alleged catallel structure). We, and our way of thinking, have, after all, developed within  a  in re  context (that is to say, within an objective, real, and matter-of-fact-context or environment, in which there are things having certain properties independently of our thinking). Logic then reflects the ontological structure, but whether this amounts to an isomorphy is not certain, and must be investigated from case to case.

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