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Only a few paragraphs before presenting the ‘pure conVicepts of the understanding’ by means of the familiar Table of Categories, Kant considers the ‘logical function of thought in judgment’ in a similar fashion, concluding that this function may be “brought under four heads, each of which contains three moments.”1 The fourth of these heads, as presented in the Table of Judgments, is:1
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Critique of Pure Reason,Transcendental Analytic, Bk. I, Ch. I, Sec. 2, §9; (A70, B95). [In Norman Kemp Smith’s Translation (Humanities Press, 1950), p. 106 ff.]
loc. cit., “4”. A74–6, B99–101, NKS109–10.
I refrain purposely from using symbols for the logical connectives here; they are not being analysed, and are better kept separate from the modalities at this point.
Part of this observation must be drawn from his discussion of the disjunctive judgment in the paragraph just preceeding that on modality. A74, B99, NKS 109.
Transc. Anal., Bk. I., Ch. I, Sec. 3, 10. A80, B106, NKS 113.
in loc. cit. A82, B108, NKS 115.
ibid. B110, NKS 116.
ibid. B111, NKS 116.
This (Kantian) use of ‘contingency’ is consistent with the selective emphasis employed both in common sense and technical usage whereby we indicate ’that which (is but) might not be.’
op. cit., A218, B265, NKS 239 (Transc. Anal., Bk. II, Ch. II., Sec. 4).
cf. op. cit. A231, B283, NKS 250.
A219, B266, NKS 239.
A233–4, B286, NKS 251–2.
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Barber, R.L. (1964). Two Logics of Modality. In: A Symposium on Kant. Tulane Studies in Philosophy, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7493-0_2
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