La scienza della conoscenza e del linguaggio: Kant sul rapporto tra grammatica, logica e retorica

Kant takes a prudent stance on the Humanities. He denies logic the role of an organon, he ignores grammar, and he refuses altogether to consider rhetoric. The paper suggests that also grammar, logic, and rhetoric would have been legitimate candidates for a role within the «system of pure reason». It was a missed opportunity, however. The paper sketches Meier’s thesis that logic is both the «science of the rule of scientific cognition and of scientific exposition» and it reconstructs Kant’s wholesale treatment of Meier’s thoughts while highlighting the implications this missed confrontation has on Kant’s theory of language.