Abstract: The general form of the Judgment of Taste is “something is beautiful”. This is a priori synthetic judgment, which lays foundation for Kant’s analytic and deduction of the Judgment of Taste. Why and whether it is necessary to use the Four Moments to analyze the Judgment of Taste is controversial. “The First Critique” can shed light, but the Judgment of Taste is different from logically determining judgments, thus not suitable to be treated as a judgment that occurs linguistically (whether spoken or not) either from the angle of practical experience or from the perspective of strict logic, nor suitable to be simply analyzed formally or semantically. Moreover, what Judgment of Taste really judges and asserts is not to declare something is beautiful. Rather, it is a general form of judgment abstracted from our reflection on the aesthetic appreciation activity itself and the representation of both the reflection and the concept of Judgment of Taste itself. Because the elements constituting this form of judgment represent the characteristics of all aspects of Judgment of Taste, what the Four Moments illustrate are the characteristics of the Judgment of Taste. The Four Moments of Judgment of Taste are to take the appreciation activity itself as the cognitive object and analyze its concept, from which we can see the application of the Four Moments is inevitable.

Key words:  , a priori synthetic judgment, as if subjectivity, as if objectivity, Judgment of Taste (Geschmack Beurteilung), Judgment of Taste（Geschmacksurtheils）