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The question then becomes, first how should we understand 'form of judgement' more precisely, and secondly, how does logic, as the discipline concerned with forms of judgments in the sense of (L4), relate to (L2)?
Kant identifies the categories in what he calls the metaphysical deduction, which precedes the transcendental deduction.[17] Very briefly, since the categories are a priori rules for judging, Kant argues that an exhaustive table of categories can be derived from a table of the basic logical forms of judgments.
As MacFarlane 2002 points out, one of Kant's most central views about logic is that its axioms and theorems are purely formal in nature, i.e., abstracted from all semantic content and concerned only with the forms of judgments, which are applicable across all the physical and mathematical sciences (1781/1787, A55/B79, A56/B80, A70/B95).
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Circumscribing the Investigations into the Active Ego. 2. The Fundamental Structures and Fundamental Forms of Judgment.
The logical forms of judgment are in essence the forms of combination of concepts in judgments.
The claim has often been made that the links Kant specifies between synthesis and judgment, judgment and the forms of judgment, the forms of judgment and the categories are not sufficiently supported.
In §20, Kant ties this notion of judgment to the twelve forms of judgment presented in the Metaphysical Deduction (A70/B95), and he then connects these forms of judgment to the twelve categories (A76 83/B102 9).
On an interpretation of this sort, Kant's forms of judgment may be identified with logical concepts susceptible of analysis (see e.g. Allison 1983, pp. 126ff).
The structure in question is the system of the forms of judgment; the resulting theory is the theory of what Kant called the Categories.
The second is a move down from the Aristotelian forms of judgment to the concepts that we have to use in judging, namely, the Categories.
But this conception of their relationship assumes that the "general features of judgments" or "forms of judgment" which (L4) is concerned with deal with something like the logical constants in the language of thought.
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