ABSTRACT
In discussing the Paralogisms, I focus on the A edition text and use the B edition for clarifi cation and support. The major premise of the First Paralogism defi nes substance. A substance is that which in judgments is always represented as subject and never as determination of something else. This premise pertains to that which is judged about or that which is an object of thought or judgment. If what is thought or judged about can only be thought or judged about as what determinations belong to, but not as itself a determination belonging to anything, then the object of thought is a substance or an entity in its own right. The major premise is neutral as to whether or not this object of judgment can also be an object of intuition; the defi nition of substance applies in either case. Kant says in footnote (a) to B411,
Thought is taken in the two premises in totally different senses; in the major as relating to an object [of judgment] in general and therefore [also] to an object as it may be given in intuition.
