Judgment

Judgment — The act of predicating something of something: “The sky is blue”; “Socrates is mortal.” Aristotle analyzes judgments as propositions that can be true or false. Kant distinguishes analytic judgments (the predicate is contained in the subject: “A bachelor is unmarried”) from synthetic (the predicate adds something: “Gold is yellow”) and a priori from a posteriori. The “faculty of judgment” (Urteilskraft) is the subject of the third Critique, which analyzes the beautiful and the teleological.

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