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The possibility of UniversalityIn Waibel Violetta, Ruffing Margit & David Wagner (eds.), Natur und Freiheit : Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. 2018.In his lecture on logic, Kant puts forth his most detailed account of concept formation. Here Kant maintains that concepts are the result of a three-step process: comparison, reflection, and abstraction. Though most commentators acknowledge that this particular passage leads to a number of interpretive difficulties, it is almost unanimously accepted that: (1) concepts are composed of features which are shared by a multiplicity of objects and (2) that it is in virtue of these features that concep…Read more
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