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No proposition is possible without both content and form. There must be something about which one has knowledge, and there must also be something which one knows about this thing. It follows that the initial proposition of the entire Wissenschaftslehre must have both content and form. Since this proposition is supposed to be certain immediately and through itself, this can only mean...

From an article by Wayne Martin -

Fichte’s Logical Legacy: Thetic Judgment from the Wissenschaftslehre to Brentano

'...the science of Wissenschaftslehre gave prominence to judgments that were distorted if pressed into the traditional logical forms. Accordingly, Fichte proposed to let logical theory follow in the wake of transcendental philosophy, specifically by letting the shape of his philosophical theory revise the traditional standards for logical form.'

‘What Fichte is referring to is not really self-consciousness, but self-hood via the concept of self-consciousness as a concrete form of self-hood’s operation. Self-hood is not identical to consciousness.’

(From an article - http://epochemagazine.org/40/fichte-a...)

As it posits itself, so it is; and as it is, so it posits itself; and hence the self is absolute and necessary for the self. What does not exist for itself is not a self.”

‘What Fichte is referring to is not really self-consciousness, but self-hood via the concept of self-consciousness as a concrete form of self-hood’s operation. Self-hood is not identical to consciousness.’

...a fact of consciousness which is inherently no such fact; but it will be recognized thereby that we must necessarily think this Act as the basis of all consciousness.”

...there is less risk that anyone will perhaps thereby fail to think what he should—the nature of our mind has already taken care of that—than that he will thereby think what he should not. This makes it necessary to reflect on what one might at first sight take it to be, and to abstract from everything that does not really belong to it. Not even by means of this abstracting reflection can anything become a...

“Our task is to discover the primordial, absolutely unconditioned first principle of all human knowledge. This can be neither proved nor defined, if it is to be an absolutely primary principle. It is intended to express that Act which does not and cannot appear among the empirical states of our consciousness, but rather lies at the basis of all consciousness and alone makes it possible. In describing this Act,...

‘If critical idealism continues to give them [his critics] trouble, we may expect them next to seek counsel from Aristotle, as to whether they are really alive or already dead and buried. In casting doubt on their ability to recognize their own freedom and selfhood, they are covertly uneasy on this latter point already.’

‘As surely as I posit myself, I posit myself as something restricted, in consequence of the intuition of my self-positing. In virtue of this intuition I am finite.’