Teorie del giudizio

Since Aristotle the reflection on the structure and constitutive moments of judgment, i.e., of apophantic discourse – the propositional form “S is P” – represents the heart of every philosophical investigation. It is thus possible to say that every ontology, every metaphysics, and every theory of knowledge is, in its deepest sense, the expression of a particular conception of judgment. With the Aristotelian theory as a background, Kant, Hegel, Husserl and Heidegger understand judgment and its capacity to express the truth in different ways even when they follow a common question that Kant has so formulated: «What is here the unknown = X that gives support to the understanding when it believes that it can discover outside the concept A a predicate B foreign to this concept, which it yet at the same time considers to be connected with it?»