The Table of Judgments
Kant believed that the ability of the human understanding to think about and know an object is the same as the making of a spoken or written judgment about an object. According to him, "Our ability to judge is equivalent to our ability to think." A judgment is the thought that a thing is known to have a certain quality or attribute. For example, the sentence "The rose is red" is a judgment. Kant created a table of the forms of such judgments as they relate to all objects in general.
- Quantity
- Universal
- Particular
- Singular
- Quality
- Affirmative
- Negative
- Infinite
- Relation
- Categorical
- Hypothetical
- Disjunctive
- Modality
- Problematical
- Assertoric
- Apodictic
This table of judgments was used by Kant as a model for the table of categories. Taken together, these twelvefold tables constitute the formal structure for Kant's architectonic conception of his philosophical system.
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