philosophy, not only in the philosophical field (which would be just), but in the whole spiritual field. Extending itself from this to other usurpations and led on by the mirage of an ill-understood unity, it claims all the other syntheses for logical synthesis, and produces a great spiritual desert, in which logical thought itself at length dies of starvation. [Sidenote: _The category in the judgment. Difference between category and innate idea._] The logical element, the pure concept or judgment of definition considered in itself, is given the name of _category_ in the logical _a priori_ synthesis. This term is nothing but the Greek equivalent for the word "predicate," which we have hitherto employed. It has been asked if the category is what used to be called an _inniate idea._ The answer must be that it is both that and also something profoundly different. The innate idea was indeed the category, but the category taken as possessed and thought _prior_ to experience, according to the view that we have described as abstract or dogmatic. First the music, then the words; first definitions, then individual judgments or perceptions. The category, on the contrary, is neither the mother nor the first-born. It is born at one birth with the individual judgment, not as its twin, but as that judgment itself. From this aspect the category or the _a priori_ is not the innate, but the perpetually new-born. From this we see the vanity of the question, whether the judgment or the concept be logically _prior,_ not only in the relation, which we have already examined, of concept with verbal form (judgment of definition), but also in the relation of concept with individual judgment. We can say indifferently that to _think_ is to _conceive,_ or that to _think_ is to _judge,_ because the two formulæ are reduced to one. Equally vain is the question as to whether the categories precede the judgment or are obtained from it. They not only do not precede the judgment, but are not even obtained from it. We never issue forth from the judgment, as we never issue forth from reality and history. [Sidenote: _The a priori synthesis, the destruction of transcendency, and the objectivity of knowledge._]