Standpoint, Universality, Plurality

At #40 of the Critique of Judgment, Kant discusses thinking from a "universal standpoint", i. e. "from the standpoint of everybody else", achievable only by "transferring" oneself to the "standpoint of others".  Now, given that 'standpoint' essentially connotes 'particularity', the concept of 'universal standpoint' is, at best, problematic.  Furthermore, the distinction between Appearances and Things-in-Themselves, which is fundamental to his system, entails that the object of a 'universal standpoint' can only be a thing-in-itself, a classification which seems unhelpful to a theory concerning aesthetic judgments about appearances. In any case, in the notion of transferring oneself to the standpoint of some other, there is brief evidence of a process of Pluralization, a process that gets suppressed by Kant's eventual effort to universalize the standpoint.