RELATION

[A261/B317] "The relations in which concepts in a state of mind can stand to one another are those of identity and difference, of agreement and opposition, of the inner and the outer, and finally of the determinable and the determination (matter and form)....Before constructing any objective judgment we compare the concepts to find in them identity (of many representations under one concept) with a view to universal judgments, difference with a view to particular judgments, agreement with a view to affirmative judgments, opposition with a view to negative judgments, etc." There seems to be an interesting way in which the manner that intuitions are applied to concepts depends on the relations in which the intuition and concepts stand to each other, as well as on the relations which intuitions stand to intuitions and concepts to concepts; here, however, Kant is concerned with emphasizing that an amphiboly takes place if we try to determine the relations holding between things in themselves.