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Single Idea 9346

[from 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Immanuel Kant, in 15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 1. Faculties ]

Full Idea

Empirical universality is an increase in validity from most cases to all cases (e.g. all bodies are heavy), whereas strict universality belongs to a judgement essentially; this points to a special faculty of a priori cognition for it.

Gist of Idea

Judgements which are essentially and strictly universal reveal our faculty of a priori cognition

Source

Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B004)

Book Reference

Kant,Immanuel: 'Critique of Pure Reason', ed/tr. Guyer,P /Wood,A W [CUO 1998], p.137


A Reaction

I would say that 'strict' universality arises not directly from some faculty, but from increasing degrees of refinement by abstraction. It is merely the iterations of a lower faculty, not the pure deliverances of a higher one.