NCJ Number
118616
Date Published
1988
Length
20 pages
Annotation
The theory of determinacy is not a logic of thought categories in the traditional sense of a logic of determinacies but is instead simply a logic of categories, considered in their own right without reference to any predetermined thinking or speech.
Abstract
The argument of the theory of determinacy would be neither analytic nor synthetic in the customary sense in which these concepts are used, but would instead proceed analytically and synthetically at one and the same time. The theory of determinacy does not prescribe rules of thought or principles of reality, but instead conceives the true categories of determinacy. Despite the special formality that bars any immediate application of the theory of determinacy, the latter still has a positive role to play in conceiving all the noncategorical realms, such as nature, mind, and justice, that reality can be broadly understood to encompass. The move from the theory of categories to the conception of noncategorical domains does offer two basic guidelines for conceiving justice. These consist in the concept of normativity established by the theory of determinacy and in the correlative method of rational reconstruction.