REMARKS ON THE WISSENSCHAFTSLEHRE

553.1. Difference between fact and fact-act, page 4.

p. 5, a is a – seems to me to be nothing but a repetition of the bringing forth of the a to being. It can express a strengthening. No connotations are involved, and it qualifies therefore as a logical copula. Often such an identity judgment expresses a sharpened distinction – a sharp attention to the peculiar character of that which is in danger of being confused with something else. The sphere a is determined through the sphere a. a is the name of an unknown sphere. The first a is a characteristic posited, the second a is an essential posited – the former is presupposed, the latter is posited. The concept a is set in opposition to the a that is available.

Their common sphere, their scene, is the I – the subject. The first a is already available in the I – the other also – They are only connected.

a is a emerges from predication of the simple; simply on account of quantity, quality, relation, modality or their composites.

554. All explanation must begin with a fact. But from which fact must all explanation proceed? It must be a fact that lies at the basis of all other facts and needs no further explanation, but rather itself first makes possible all explanation.