In
Kant's philosophy, a
category is a pure concept of the
understanding. A Kantian category is a characteristic of the appearance of any object in general, before it has been experienced. Kant wrote that "They are concepts of an object in general…." Kant also wrote that, "…pure cоncepts [Categories] of the undеrstanding…apply to objects of
intuition in general…." Such a category is not a classificatory division, as the word is commonly used. It is, instead, the condition of the
possibility of objects in general, that is, objects as such, any and all objects, not specific objects in particular.