Even though Immanuel Kant’s tables of Judgments and Categories are each made up of four triples, both are divided into the same four headings: Quantity, Quality, Relation, and Modality. And as to the tripartite structure of their divisions, I can’t say I’m convinced of their coherence and completeness, c.f. Lovejoy’s article below.
Judgments
- Quantity: Universal, Particular, Singular
- Quality: Affirmative, Negative, Infinite
- Relation: Categorical, Hypothetical, Disjunctive
- Modality: Problematic, Assertoric, Apodictic
Categories
- Quantity: Unity, Plurality, Totality
- Quality: Reality, Negation, Limitation
- Relation: Substance, Cause, Community
- Modality: Possibility, Existence, Necessity
Further Reading:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-judgment/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_(Kant)
Arthur O. Lovejoy / Kant’s Classification of the Forms of Judgment, The Philosophical Review, Nov. 1907, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 588-603
Some researchers discussing Kant’s judgments that look interesting:
https://siucarbondale.academia.edu/RichardLanigan
https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/semi/2019/227/article-p273.xml?language=en
http://www.mrc.uidaho.edu/~rwells/
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