Potentialities of turkish in the context of translations from western philosophy: a survey via kant’s theoretical system

Each cognitive discipline depends on in its essential aspects a certain kind of language constructed via specific terminological patterns. In this context, one of the most important criteria for a better understanding of improvement degree of a discipline can be found within the lexically structured terms that adequately reflect conceptual apparatus of that discipline. Despite the fact that this matter is obviously clear, a historically oriented overview of Turkish philosophical language shows that a deep crisis in progress with respect to terminological usage of language in our country ever since the period of modernization. In this study, translations of Kant’s Kritik der reinen Vernunf into Turkish will analytically examined in order to reveal the above-mentioned problems how far goes into the deep in our apprehension of philosophical language