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From the distinction drawn by Fichte between the two views of thought, namely the natural and ordinary thinking, that is, the factual point of view, in which objects are thought immediately and in which the world and thought are given thoughtlessly, and artificial and transcendental thinking, that is, the genetic point of view, in which thought reflects on itself, questions the presuppositions of knowledge and, therefore, makes itself as a Wissenschaftslehre, it is therefore to understand here which is the way to proceed that grounds the transcendental point of view of the Wissenschaftslehre, at least in the writings of Fichte relating to his stay in Jena.

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