Kant’s Theory of Judgment - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy But Kant’s theory of judgment differs sharply from many other theories of judgment, both traditional and contemporary, in three ways: (1) by taking the innate capacity for judgment to be the central cognitive faculty of the rational human mind, (2) by insisting on the semantic, logical, psychological, epistemic, and practical priority of the
Categories of the Understanding - Philosophy Stack Exchange Kant's categories are supposed to tell us what kinds of judgments human minds are capable of making, but they are rather artificial One commentator I've read says Kant was more concerned with filling out the structure of four groups of three than he was in coming up with something truly systematic
Categories - Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Kant proposes to derive his categories from these forms or aspects of judgment, obtaining the corresponding list of unity, plurality and totality under ‘quantity’; reality, negation and limitation under ‘quality’; inherence and subsistence, causality and dependence, and community under ‘relation’; and possibility–impossibility
2 - The Concept of Judgment and the Divisions of Philosophy The Concept of Judgment and the Divisions of Philosophy; Konstantin Pollok, University of South Carolina; Book: Kant's Theory of Normativity; Online publication: 24 March 2017; Chapter DOI: https: doi org 10 1017 9781316412503 005
Kant’s Theory of Knowledge: Judgments, Categories, and A Priori Forms Kant said that the sciences are composed of judgments, which are factual statements about something They are classified according to two different criteria: relationship between subject and predicate, and the relationship between opinion and experience Analytical: The information given by the predicate is contained in the subject
Kants Conception of the Categories - JSTOR Kant has two sets of categories, the logical (formal) and the real (material) The material categories are given in his Table of Categories, and the logical categories in his Table of Judgments The former are generic concepts, but not the latter The logical categories constitute the forms of judgment; the real categories pro
3 - Understanding: judgements, categories, schemata, principles In the Critique of Pure Reason, the major work of his transcendental philosophy that is supposed to answer the key question of theoretical philosophy, “What can I know?” (A 804 B 832), Kant writes: “All that seems necessary for an introduction or preliminary is that there are two stems of cognition … sensibility and understanding” (A
Kants Theory of Judgment - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy According to Kant, judgments are complex conscious cognitions that (i) refer to objects either directly (via intuitions) or indirectly (via concepts), (ii) include concepts that are predicated either of those objects or of other constituent concepts, (iii) exemplify pure logical concepts and enter into inferences according to pure logical laws,
Kant on Quantitative and Qualitative Judgments In this paper our primary objective is to explain Kant’s quantitative and qualitative judgments and examine some related objections put forward by his critics