Logical purposiveness and the principle of taste

Kant Studien 96 (3):364-374 (2005)
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In both Introductions to the Critique of Judgment  Kant seems to identify the a priori  principle at the basis of aesthetic judgments with the principle that guides reflective judgment in its cognitive inquiry of nature, i.e. the purposiveness of nature or systematicity. For instance Kant writes.

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Luigi Caranti
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