312 SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE ORGANISM 



" Individuality " 



I propose to give the name of individuality or con- 

 structivity a to the new category we are studying here. 

 This name would seem perhaps to require some justification 

 and explanation. It was chosen in order to render the 

 aspect of the category as little psychological and anthropo- 

 morphic as possible. In fact, by saying that " individuality ' 

 leads to individual construction and is elemental in itself 

 the role of this category seems better expressed than in 

 any other way. Some special category we must have in 

 order to acquire any systematised experience about specific 

 and typical constructions at all ; there would not be any 

 such experience without it. 2 The construction itself may 

 be spatial or temporal or both ; that is to say, the whole 

 of the construction may be a typical order of elements in 

 space or in time or in both ; no matter, its logical aspect 

 remains construction of individual wholeness in spite of its 

 being composed of parts. 



1 At the end of the "Beweis" of his " Dritte Analogic der Erfahrung" 

 Kant uses the word "Composition" instead of his ' ' Gemeinschaft " or 

 "Wechselwirkung." Does it not look as if he had here perceived the 

 true third category of relation ? 



2 This is not the place for a real "deduction" of the category of in- 

 dividuality. I only say here that it might easily be discovered as an analogy 

 to a certain class of judgments, or rather of the logical elementalities con- 

 cerned in judgments, just as Kant discovered his "table of categories." 

 But judgments would have to be studied completely for this purpose. 

 Strange to say, this has never been done either by Kant or by Kantians : the 

 final judgment ("in order that," "damit," "afinque") has always been 

 overlooked. And yet it is irreducible ! The disjunctive judgment, which 

 belongs to another main group altogether, has wrongly taken its place. 



