An idea from Critique of Pure Reason

The understanding adds 12 basic concepts, among them unity, substance, and cause, sorted 3 each under quantity, quality, relation, and modality. They were read off a table of the kinds of judgment. Critics from Hegel to Strawson in 1966 call that derivation the weakest step.

From Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

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