ABSTRACT
New fundamental insights can by contrast only be drawn from perceptual cognizance, as that which is alone full and rich, with the aid of the power of judgment. Simple concepts would have to be properly those that are irresolvable, accordingly could never be the subject of an analytic judgment. What are usually cited as examples of simple concepts are no longer concepts at all, but in part mere sensations through the senses, say those of a particular color, and in part the forms belonging to perception of which we are conscious a priori, thus really the ultimate elements of perceptual cognizance. Word and language are therefore the indispensable means to distinct thinking. The ancient languages, however, perform this service very much better than the modern, since, by virtue of their being considerably different from them, the same thought must now be expressed in an entirely different way.
