Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• Mohammad Taqi Tabatabaei

Abstract

The speculative sentence is one of Hegel’s logical innovations first introduced in Phenomenology of Spirit, though it also plays an important role as the vehicle of dialectics in his Science of Logic. The concept of this sentence is based upon Hegel’s critique of Aristotle's predicative sentence and Kant’s synthetic a priori. In this paper, this sentence is defined in accordance with the former sentences of Aristotle’s and specially Kant’s logic. Moreover, the possibilities which this sentence produces for Hegel’s thought will be examined by considering its relation to Hegel’s dialectic. Finally, we can see in the process of shaping this sentence the whole of Hegel’s philosophy

Keywords

• Speculative sentence
• synthetic a priori judgment
• synthetic a posteriori judgment
• analytic judgment
• predicative sentence
• dialectics