Overview:
In the thought sciences (Ideal Sciences), scientific knowledge is directed toward those forms that are essential to thought; disregarding the connection between thought and being---though it is aware of the possibility of this connection. Two sciences qualify: logic and mathematics.
The relationship of the ideal sciences to the human sciences and to the sciences of being is reflected in these two sciences.
- Logic examines thought in abstraction from every content, but in considering its objects assumes that it is possible for thought to grasp these contents (conditions resident in thought under which objects can be grasped by thought).
- Mathematics attempts to know the conditions residing in thought under which the objects can exist.