Le Je pense comme facteur de vérité: adéquation, cohérence et communauté sémantique
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Paulo Jesus
Abstract
This article proposes a reading of the Kantian transcendental apperception that attempts both to reinforce the cognitive efficacy of its spontaneity (described as poetics of the self) and to determine the modus operandi of its unifying function (described as self-regulated cognition). Thus, being irreducible to a pure logical form (or form of representation in general), the I think is meant to constitute the qualitative unity of all possible representational system, insofar as it performs an infinite process of semantic or narrative unification. From this standpoint, the I think denotes the key operation that produces meaning, and thereby the very possibility of truth. It follows, from such a framework of a procedural and constructivist theory of truth, the absolute primacy of the establishment of a semantic community by and under the Self. This community lays the foundation of coherence or organic cohesion of contents, and coherence provides the ground where correspondence emerges, which, in the last analysis, expresses nothing but the ever unfinished agreement of donation and action, agreement of Self with Itself.
© Walter de Gruyter 2010
Articles in the same Issue
- Kant on the Nominal Definition of Truth
- Le Je pense comme facteur de vérité: adéquation, cohérence et communauté sémantique
- Die Höllenfahrt der Selbsterkenntnis und der Weg zur Vergötterung bei Hamann und Kant
- „A Good, Honest Watchmaker“: J. C. F. Schulz's Portrait of Kant from 1791
- Three Problems in Westphal's Transcendental Proof of Realism
- Zwei Konjekturvorschläge zur Tugendlehre, § 9
- Buchbesprechungen
- Mitgliederversammlung der Kant-Gesellschaft
Articles in the same Issue
- Kant on the Nominal Definition of Truth
- Le Je pense comme facteur de vérité: adéquation, cohérence et communauté sémantique
- Die Höllenfahrt der Selbsterkenntnis und der Weg zur Vergötterung bei Hamann und Kant
- „A Good, Honest Watchmaker“: J. C. F. Schulz's Portrait of Kant from 1791
- Three Problems in Westphal's Transcendental Proof of Realism
- Zwei Konjekturvorschläge zur Tugendlehre, § 9
- Buchbesprechungen
- Mitgliederversammlung der Kant-Gesellschaft
