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Full Idea
The categories are the concepts of an object in general, by means of which its intuition is regarded as determined with regard to one of the logical functions of government.
Gist of Idea
Categories are general concepts of objects, which determine the way in which they are experienced
Source
Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B128/A95)
Book Ref
Kant,Immanuel: 'Critique of Pure Reason', ed/tr. Guyer,P /Wood,A W [CUO 1998], p.226
A Reaction
These are Kant's 'transcendental' categories. I'm wondering what he made of our more normal categories, such as animal species, genera etc.