COMMENTARIES ON KANT: THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON (2/N)
2. The Human Intellect, even in an Unphilosophical State, is in Possession of Certain Cognitions “à priori”. Kant's whole assertion in this part can be summarized by his own statement, "But, for the present, we may content ourselves with having established the fact, that we do possess and exercise a faculty of pure à priori cognition; and, secondly, with having pointed out the proper tests of such cognition, namely, universality and necessity." Let me expand on that. We will first understand his assertion in this and then raise our comments on it. So, Last time, he ended on a note that There exists a priori knowledge , different from empirical knowledge needs to be examined. Here, He has started to philosophize. He Assumes, as last time he did before philosophizing, that there exists a pure cognition which differs from an empirical cognition. He says that although experience gives knowledge about existence of objects as such, but it need not mean that they cannot...