THE DIRECT JUSTIFICATION OF ENTELECHY 301 



Kant founded his Tafel der Kategorien upon the 

 different possible forms of judgments ; judgments being 

 regarded, so to say, as objectified reasoning. Was it not a 

 certain kind of " experience " to become convinced that 

 these forms of judgments were possible ? And would it 

 not be a certain kind of " experience " to discover by intro- 

 spective analysis immediately what kinds of elemental 

 concepts and relations pertaining to Givenness are quite 

 inevitable to my mind ? 



Thus, I think, we may be permitted to say in a very 

 neutral form that the categorical system is revealed to me 

 by immediate analytical " experience " of an absolutely 

 irreducible kind. This sort of " experience " simply states, 

 " The categories are valid as they are/' and at the same time 

 expresses the conviction that all science, including psychology, 

 rests upon the categories, and that even such concepts as 

 " Ego," " Subject and Object," " Eeality," form part of the 

 categorical system. We shall soon have a good opportunity 

 of verifying what we have learned, in a special case. 



A Few Eemarks on Categories and Ordinary Experience 



The categories are established in the conscious stream of 

 immediate Givenness in the irreducible form of "experience" 

 just described but once acquired they are capable of 

 directing the conscious subject, systematising in this way all 

 further truly empirical ordinary experience ; for we only 

 understand the Given as far as it is formulated categorically. 

 Thus categories become axiomatic. Indeed, all concepts 

 and propositions in science, so far as they are based upon 

 the categorical system, ought to be called axioms ; the word 



