(no subject)

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3. All relations of thought in judgements are those (a) of the predicate to the subject; (b) of the principle to its consequence; (c) of the divided cognition and all the members of the division to each other.”

Immanuel Kant. The Critique of Pure Reason.

From a purely formal perspective, discussions and misunderstandings about whether Trump is a racist stem from a deficiency in natural human language that expresses statements of category 3b as 3c. Kant describes such errors as illusions of reason, analogous to illusions of perception.