Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant Chapter 31 Page 3

validity is not to be based on any collecting of the suffrages of others, or on any questioning of them as to the kind of sensations they have, but is to rest, as it were, on an autonomy of the judging subject in respect of the feeling of pleasure (in the given representation), i.e. on his own taste, and yet is not to be derived from concepts; then a judgement like this — such as the judgement of taste is, in fact — has a twofold logical peculiarity.

First, there is it’s a priori universal validity, which is not a logical universality in accordance with concepts, but the universality of a singular judgement.

Secondly, it has a necessity (which must always rest on a priori grounds), which however does not depend on any