In this book, I argue that Hegel develops a sui generis naturalist and realist conception of logic that has been overlooked in the history of philosophy. On the one hand, I show how Hegel’s logic is an account of the uniquely human instinct of rationality that drives us to create a universe of meaning and how this instinct, despite being a product of nature, also radically separates us from the rest of it, thereby balancing naturalism and human exceptionalism. On the other hand, I show how Hegel’s logic, while contending that the universe of meaning that we create is a distinctively human product of language, simultaneously defends the view that this universe is not a mere idealist or linguistic construct but can reveal the real, mind-independent structure of the external world.