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3 - The Form of Reflexivity and the Expression “I think”
from Part II - Self-Consciousness and the “I” of the Understanding
Katharina T. Kraus, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Book:

Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation

Published online:

01 December 2020

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03 December 2020, pp 83-129
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Chapter 3, “The Form of Reflexivity and the Expression of Self-Presence”, explores the role of transcendental apperception for inner experience according to the Transcendental Deduction (B) of the first Critique. By showing the insufficiencies of two alternative views defended in the literature, namely the psychological view and the logical view, the chapter argues that transcendental apperception is the capacity for reflexive consciousness in general. Its characteristic form, the general form of reflexivity, is the most general condition on any conscious representation and can be expressed by the phrase “I think”. The chapter concludes by arguing that the phrase “I think”, if in fact attached to a representation in thought, expresses self-reference to oneself as individual thinker, yet without determining oneself.