Judgment Sorter
Analytic or synthetic? A priori or a posteriori? Sort Kant's famous examples.
Judgment
The basic operation of thought: the combination of representations in which a predicate is affirmed or denied of a subject.
For Kant the understanding simply is the “faculty of judging”: to think means to combine representations in judgments — “all bodies are extended”, “this stone is warm”. Knowledge happens in the judgment, not in the isolated concept.
Kant's table of judgments orders all possible forms of judging under four headings and serves him as the guiding thread for discovering the twelve categories. He also crosses two distinctions: analytic or synthetic, a priori or a posteriori — from which his guiding question about synthetic judgments a priori arises.
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Where it appears
- Aesthetics
- Enlightenment — Public or private?
- Knowledge — Four ways of judging
- Ethics
- Critique of Pure Reason
- Critique of Judgment — Origins & context
- FAQ
- Workshop
- Teaching — 1 · What is Enlightenment?
Source: Wikipedia: Judgment