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- Title
Kant on Formal Modality.
- Authors
Blecher, Ian S.
- Abstract
Abstract: I propose to explain Kant's novel claim, in the Critique of Pure Reason, that all judgments have a formal modality. I begin by distinguishing the modality of a judgment's form from the modality of its content, and I suggest that the former is peculiar in merely affecting the subject's understanding of his own act of judging. I then contrast the modal account of such an understanding (in terms of the possibility and actuality of a judgment) with the traditional, non-modal understanding of it (in terms of the giving and withholding of assent). I conclude by suggesting that Kant prefers the former because he conceives of knowledge on Aristotle's model: as a progress in the mind from capacity to act.
- Subjects
KANT, Immanuel, 1724-1804; CRITIQUE of Pure Reason (Book : Kant); ARISTOTLE, 384-322 B.C.; MODALITY (Theory of knowledge); LEGAL judgments; MEIER, Georg Friedrich
- Publication
Kant-Studien, 2013, Vol 104, Issue 1, p44
- ISSN
0022-8877
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/kant-2013-0005