A judgement asserting either one or the other conclusion would be a determining rather than a reﬂective one, and the concept of an end of nature would then no longer be a mere concept of the power of judgement, for immanent (empirical) employ ment, but would be bound up with a concept of reason, of an intentionally acting cause set over nature, irrespective of whether we wished to pass an affirmative or a negative judgement in this case.