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[ Gemeinschaft ] see also analogies of experience , categories , church , communicability , cosmopolitanism , state Community is strictly speaking the third category of relation, and like all categories is derived from a form of judgement, in this case the disjunctive. It yields a schema and a principle in the third analogy. A disjunctive judgement is one which includes propositions which are mutually exclusive but which between them add up to a totality of knowledge. Kant represents totality as ‘a whole divided into parts (the subordinate concepts), and that since no one of them can be contained under any other, they are thought as co-ordinated with, not subordinated to, each other, and so determining each other, not in one direction only, as in a series, but reciprocally, as in an aggregate’ (CPR B 112). By analogy he extends this logical relationship of concepts to ‘a whole which is made up of things’, claiming that in the latter ‘a similar combination is being thought’. This is because, in contrast to the category of causality, ‘one thing is not subordinated, as effect, to another, as cause of its existence, but, simultaneously and reciprocally, is co-ordinated with it, as cause of the determination of the other’ (CPR B 112). This co-ordination is characterized by parts existing independently of each other and ‘yet combined together in one whole’ (CPR B 113). As with ... log in or subscribe to read full text