Abstract Kant’s early work The False Subtlety of the Four Syllogistic Figures is typically considered a narrow, technical work still embedded in the tradition of Wolffian logic. I argue instead that it needs to be considered in light of Kant’s developing theory of cognition and his corresponding criticism of the Wolffian single faculty theory. Whereas the mature Kant criticizes the rationalists for misrepresenting the nature of sensibility, the urgent task facing him at this stage seems to have been a proper determination of the nature of the understanding. On the Wolffian framework, the latter is defined in a merely nominal manner, in terms of a generic cognitive task: the distinct representation of the possible. On Kant’s view, however, distinctness entails a capacity to relate representations, which only happens in the act of judgment. Thus, the stated aim of the False Subtlety notwithstanding, the work attempts to reorganize the logical operations around the capacity to judge. In turn, by defining the higher faculty of cognition in terms of an act of relating representations, Kant wants to show that this faculty cannot stem from a power of representation that we share with non-rational animals and must instead rest on a different fundamental power, which at the time he alternatively calls “inner sense” or “consciousness”.

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康德在三段论数字虚假含蓄中的判断与认知创新理论

摘要康德的早期著作《四个三段论人物的错误微妙之处》通常被认为是一种狭窄的技术著作，仍然嵌入在沃尔夫逻辑的传统中。我反而认为，需要根据康德不断发展的认知理论以及他对沃尔夫夫单一教职理论的相应批评来考虑它。成熟的康德批评理性主义者歪曲了感性的本质，而现阶段他所面临的紧迫任务似乎已经正确地确定了理解的本质。在沃尔夫框架上，后者是根据一般的认知任务：可能性的独特表示，以名义上的方式定义的。但是，在康德看来，与众不同意味着必须具有关联表述的能力，这仅在判断行为中发生。因此，尽管存在虚假微妙的既定目标，但这项工作仍试图围绕判断能力来重组逻辑运算。反过来，康德通过根据相关表征的行为定义了认知的高级能力，康德希望表明，这种能力不能源自我们与非理性动物共有的表征能力，而必须依靠不同的基本能力，当时他也称其为“内在意识”或“意识”。