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That is, analytical judgment merely analyzes, it expands on what
proceeds from the concept of the subject. Kant uses the following
example: “All bodies are extended.” (Ibid) The body (S) is (c) extend¬
ed (P), which adds nothing to it. On the other hand, the synthetic
adds new knowledge to the concept of the subject that would never
result from analysis. This is why all experiential knowledge also
results in synthetic judgment. For example, it does not follow from
the concept of a bag that it is red or brown. I have to look at it (to
experience it) to correctly judge a bag’s color, or that someone is
a horse blanket.
On this subject, it is worth mentioning the famous explanation
of Friedrich Hölderlin in connection with the Fichte lectures".
Hölderlin writes to Schelling on Easter 1795, “Be calm, I know you
will get to where Fichte did, because I was his student. (Aus Schell¬
ings Leben, I.p.71.) Why does he think so? This is explained by the
fragment Urteil und Sein (Judgment and Being), which appeared at
an auction in 1930. Originally, the manuscript was untitled, so it
was not Hölderlin who gave it this title. It has been dated to 1795,
which coincides with the above letter. Dieter Heinrich showed that
it can be dated based on the changing orthography of Hélderlin.(
Cf. in relation to this Weiss 2003.p.200.)
But let us examine the nature of judgment itself to understand
the content of the spoken Word’s creation, in a philosophical sense.
“Urteil” (judgment), if we take the original meaning of the word,
is an “Ur-teil”, an “Ur-Teilung”, which
- is ancient or originary (Ur), (“in the beginning was the Word”);
- means division(Teiling), which is involved in “judgment” in
that was originally same is divided in the act of a judgment being
made; it is divided by judgment (S-P),
- so in other words the Word “was made flesh”
14 Hélderlin arrived at the University of Jena in 1794, where he attended Fichte’s
lectures. He shared these with his former roommate, Schelling.