The paper puts forward that the basic principle of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (4.0312) transforms
“the supreme principle of all synthetic judgments a priori” in Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason”
(A158/B197) from a level of reason to the level of language. Both philosophers, Kant and Wittgenstein,
put forward a transcendental principle and both hold a formal identity true, Kant an identity between the
form of experience and the form of the object of experience, Wittgenstein an identity between the f…
Read moreThe paper puts forward that the basic principle of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (4.0312) transforms
“the supreme principle of all synthetic judgments a priori” in Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason”
(A158/B197) from a level of reason to the level of language. Both philosophers, Kant and Wittgenstein,
put forward a transcendental principle and both hold a formal identity true, Kant an identity between the
form of experience and the form of the object of experience, Wittgenstein an identity between the form of a sentence and the form of a fact. Both transform the identity of thinking and being first formulated by Parmenides “... to gar auto noein estin te kai einai“ (D/K.B3)
