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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Critique of Pure Reason
 published: 2024-07-27
 description: Reading Notes
 image: './cover.png'
-tags: ["Theory"]
+tags: [ "Theory" ]
 category: 'Philosophy'
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@@ -12,5 +12,13 @@ Kant argues that our mathematical, physical, and quotidian knowledge of nature r
 "synthetic" rather than "analytic," that is, going beyond what can be known solely in virtue of the contents of the
 concepts involved in them and the application of the logical principles of identity and contradiction to these concepts,
 and yet also knowable _a priori_, that is, independently of any particular experience since no particular experience
-could ever be sufficient to establish the universal and necessary validity of these judgments. 
+could ever be sufficient to establish the universal and necessary validity of these judgments.
 
+Kant agrees with Locke that we have no innate knowledge, that is, no knowledge of any particular propositions
+implanted in us by God or nature prior to the commencement of our individual experience. I2 But experience is the
+product both of external objects affecting our sensibility and of the operation of our cognitive faculties in response
+to this effect (A I, B I), and Kant's claim is that we can have "pure" or a priori cognition of the contributions to
+experience made by the operation of these faculties themselves, rather than of the effect of external objects on us in
+experience. Kant divides our cognitive capacities into our receptivity to the effects of external objects acting on us
+and giving us sensations, through which these objects are given to us in empirical intuition, and our active faculty for
+relating the data of intuition by thinking them under concepts, which is called understanding