Logic

CONTENTS

Translator's Forewardix

Introduction

§ 1. The first, most literal meaning of the word “logic”

§ 2. A first indication of the concept of the subject matter of “logic”

§ 3. A philosophizing logic and traditional scholastic logic

§4. The possibility and the being of truth in general. Skepticism

§ 5. Outline of the course. Bibliography

Prolegomenon.

The contemporary situation of philosophical logic.
(Psychologism and the question of truth)

§6. Psychologism: the name and the concept

§7. Husserl’s critique of psychologism

a) Some preliminaries of the critique

b) Demonstration of the fundamental errors

§ 8. The presuppositions of Husserl’s critique: a specific concept of truth as the guiding idea

§ 9. The roots of these presuppositions

§10. Anti-critical questions. The need to take the question of the essence of truth back to Aristotle

a) Why must the critique of psychologism be a critique of psychology?

b) What positive contribution does the phenomenological investigation of psychologism make to the question of the concept and interpretation of the phenomenon of truth?

c) The connection between propositional and intuitional truth. The need to return to Aristotle

Part I.

The problem of truth in the decisive origins of philosophical logic, and the seedbed of traditional logic (focused on Aristotle)

§ 11. The place of truth, and λόγος (proposition)

§ 12. The basic structure of λόγος and the phenomenon of making sense

a) The as-structure of our primary way of understanding: the hermeneutical “as”

b) The modification of the as-structure in the act of determining: the apophantic “as”

§ 13. The conditions of the possibility of λόγος being false. The question of truth

a) Preparatory interpretation. Metaphysics IV 7 and VI 4, and De interpretatione 1

b) Truth and being. Interpretation of Metaphysics IX 10

c) The three conditions for the possibility of a statement being false, taken in their interconnection

§ 14. The presupposition for Aristotle’s interpretation of truth as the authentic determination of being

Part II.

The radicalized question: What is truth? (A retrieval of the analysis of falsehood in terms of its ur-temporality)

§ 15. The idea of a phenomenological chronology

§ 16. The conditions of the possibility of falsehood within the horizon of the analysis of existence

§ 17. Care as the being of existence. Concern-for and concern-about, authenticity and inauthenticity

§ 18. The ur-temporality of care

§ 19. Preparatory considerations toward attaining an original understanding of time. A return to the history of the philosophical interpretation of the concept of time

§ 20. Hegel’s interpretation of time in the Encyclopaedia

§ 21. The influence of Aristotle on Hegel’s and Bergson’s interpretation of time

§ 22. A preliminary look at the meaning of time in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason

§ 23. The interpretation of time in the Transcendental Analytic

a) An explanation of the notions “form” and “intuition”

b) The constitutive moments of ordering

c) Form of intuition and formal intuition

d) Space and time as given infinite magnitudes; quantum and quantitas in Kant’s interpretation

§ 24. The function of time in the Transcendental Logic. A characterization of the problematic

§ 25. The question of the unity of nature

§ 26. The original a priori of all combining—the transcendental unity of apperception

§ 27. Time as the universal a priori form of all appearances

§ 28. Time as original pure self-affection

§ 29. The question about the connection between time as original self-affection and the “I think”

§ 30. Interpretation of the First Analogy of Experience in the light of our interpretation of time

§ 31. The schematism of the pure concepts of the understanding

a) Sensibilization of appearances

b) Sensibilization of empirical sensible concepts

c) Sensibilization of pure sensible concepts

d) Image and schema

e) Sensibilization of the pure concepts of understanding

§ 32. Number as the schema of quantity

§ 33. Sensation as the schema of reality

§ 34. Persistence as the schema of substance

§ 35. The time-determination of the synthesis speciosa

§ 36. The now-structure that we have attained: its character of referral and of making present. The phenomenal demonstrability and limits of Kant’s interpretation of time

§ 37. Time as an existential of human existence—temporality and the structure of care. The statement as a making-present

Editor's Afterword

Glossaries

Abbreviations

Logic (GA 21) [GA App]

Ereignis