DIFERENŢELE TRANSCENDENTALE ŞI ÎNTEMEIEREA ULTIMĂ
The Transcendental Differences and the Ultimate Foundation

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyse the way in which the transcendental project of the ultimate foundation does contain the premises of its own destruction. In its kantian expression the transcendental difference is that between "experience" and "the transcendental conditions of the possibility of experience". In the Wittgenstein's early philosophy (Tractatus) we we'll find it in the form of the difference between "what can be said" (was sich sagen läßt) and "what only shows itself" (was sich nur zeigt), and in Heidegger's early philosophy in the form of the ontological difference. Both these last philosophical constructions are fraught with insuperable difficulties. The Wittgenstein's transcendental difference leads to the self-suppressing of the expression: the condition of the possibility of expressing is not itself expressible. The Heidegger's ontological difference falls in what is called the aporia of thematization: the thematization of something (the sense of Being) which reveals itself in a non-thematic way. In both cases, Wittgenstein and Heidegger, the result is the same: the self-suppressing of conceptualization build up on a transcendental basis.

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