Abstract The main objective of this paper is to clarify the meaning of Kant’s claim that ‘I think’ is an ‘empirical sentence’. In order to do this, I analyze and interpret a passage from B 422 (footnote) in the Critique of Pure Reason, where it is claimed that the ‘I think’ is an empirical sentence. In interpreting this passage, two different approaches come to mind: On the first reading (L1), the statement ‘I think’ is an empirical sentence because it expresses a perception of ‘I am’, i. e. a perception of my own self. On the second reading (L2), the sentence ‘I think’ is empirical in that the ‘I think’ will be activated only when empirical representations are given to intuition. I shall show that these two approaches can be reconciled in the following way: The proposition ‘I think’ can be regarded as an empirical statement in the sense that the activity ‘I think’ always arises together with empirical representations, whereby the ‘I’ cognizes itself simultaneously in its ‘I am’.

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“我认为这是一个经验命题”是什么意思？

摘要本文的主要目的是阐明康德关于“我认为”是“经验句”的主张的含义。为了做到这一点，我分析和解释了《纯理性批判》中B 422（脚注）的一段，该段声称“我认为”是一个经验性的句子。在解释这段经文时，会想到两种不同的方法：在第一读（L1）上，“我认为”是一个经验性句子，因为它表达了对“我是”的理解，即。e。对自己的看法 在二读（L2）上，“我认为”这句话是经验性的，因为只有在凭经验给出直觉时才会激活“我认为”。我将说明可以通过以下方式协调这两种方法：