Reflexion and Judgment

Abstract

This paper gives a reconstruction of Kant’s view in the “Amphiboly of Concepts of Reflexion” of his Critique of Pure Reason on the role of reflexive process underlying objective judgments. Kant’s thesis that objective judgments always presuppose reflexive mediation at their basis is taken to refer only to the process of original active production of judgment, and not to the different possible ways of passive assumption without active re-execution. The specific contribution of the so-called “transcendental reflexion” can be described in terms of inclusion of sensibility in the process of comparison of representations.