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The insights that we have gained into the structure of judgments are important in many respects. They are insights into the internal onstruction, into the structure of judgments as ready-made formations of determinative action, and insights into the a priori genesis according to which every ideal possible continued construction of judgments and intertwining of judgments of higher and higher complexity is carried out systematically and according to fixed laws. Accordingly, all judgments ultimately lead back to fundamental shapes of primitive judgments and to principles of syntactic reconstruction and intertwining What strikes us here is the variation in thematic consciousness, thus, the different way in which the termini in the state-of-affairs, that is, in the logical main clause, and the termini in the subordinate clauses are given to consciousness, and accordingly are even characterized in a categorially different way, and moreover, even the difference of thematic form of the subject of determination from the object determining it. And it strikes us that the wholly other distinction in thematic consciousness, which consists in the fact that in a certain way the entire judicative accomplishment, the entire state-ofaffairs in its syntactic shape, stands in the brightest light of thematic interest, while only the termini are thematic objects.

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-0846-4_31

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