- ^ Analytic and synthetic methods are not the same as analytic and synthetic judgments. The analytic method proceeds from the known to the unknown. The synthetic method proceeds from the unknown to the known. In §§ 4 and 5, Kant asserted that the analytic method assumes that cognitions from pure reason are known to actually exist. We start from this trusted knowledge and proceed to its sources which are unknown. Conversely, the synthetic method starts from the unknown and penetrates by degrees until it reaches a system of knowledge that is based on reason.
- ^ Kant 1999, p. A713, B741.
- ^ "Descartes has demonstrated the subjectivity of the secondary qualities of perceptible objects, but Kant has also demonstrated that of the primary qualities." Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, I, § 716.
- ^ How pure concepts of the understanding are added to perceptions is explained in the Critique of Pure Reason
- ^ Kant 1999, p. A137.
- ^ a b Prolegomena to any future metaphysics, "Editor's Introduction," The Library of Liberal Arts, 1950
- ^ Kant's life and thought, Chapter IV, Yale University Press, 1981, ISBN 0-300-02982-9
- ^ The World as Will and Representation, Volume I, Appendix, Dover Publications, 1969, ISBN 0-486-21761-2
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