Abstract
At A71/B96–7 Kant explains that singular judgements are ‘special’ because
they stand to the general ones as Einheit to Unendlichkeit. The reference to
Einheit brings to mind the category of unity and hence raises a spectre of
circularity in Kant’s explanation. I aim to remove this spectre by interpreting
the Einheit-Unendlichkeit contrast in light of the logical distinctions
among universal, particular and singular judgments shared by Kant and
his logician predecessors. This interpretation has a further implication for
resolving a controversy over the correlation between the logical moments
of quantity (universal, particular, singular) and the categorial ones (unity,
plurality, totality).