CRITIQUE-28

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CRITIQUE-28

INTRANSCENDENTAL DOCTRINE OF ELEMENTS-2

Analytic of Concepts Chapter1

Of the TranscendentalGuide for the Discovery of All Pure Concepts of the Understanding

Section3

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They are set forth in the famous proposition of the scholastics, quodlibet ens est unum, verum,bomum.

What are supposedly transcendental predicates of things are, in fact, nothing but logical requirements and criteria of all knowledge of things in general, and they establish at the basis of such knowledge the categories of quantity, namely, unity, plurality and totality.

For in all knowledge of an object there is unity of the concept,which may be called qualitative unity ,insofar as we think by it only the unity in the comprehension of the manifold of our knowledge, as for instance, the unity of the theme in a play , or a speech , or a story. Secondly, there is truth in respect of the consequences .The more true consequences follow from a given concept , the more indicators are there of its objective reality.This might be called the qualitative plurality of characteristics which belong to a concept as their common ground. Thirdly, there is perfection ,which consists in the fact that the plurality taken together conversely leads back to the unity of the concept, and agrees fully with this and with no other concept ,which may be called the qualitative completeness.

Third consideration. With regard to one category, namely, that of community, which is found in the third class, its agreement with the form of a disjunctive judgement- the form which corresponds to it in the table of logical functions- is not so evident as in the case of the others.

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