Experimental Reason and Reflective Judgment

The formulation, testing, and evaluation of hypotheses are all functions of what has been previously introduced here as 'Experimental Reason'.  These processes are involved in ordinary experience as much as in rigorous, specialized, contexts.  Now, the formulation of an hypothesis consists in the seeking of some general proposition under which to subsume some given datum.  But, the seeking of a general proposition under which to subsume some given datum is an operation of what Kant calls, in the Critique of Judgment, 'Reflective Judgment'.  Accordingly, not only is the Critique of Judgment a study of some of the applications of Experimental Reason, i. e. 'thought experiments', but that Kant also evaluates Reflective Judgment as a promoter of Morality and Knowledge suggests that the Critique is itself an expression of Experimental Reason.