Critick of pure reason Author:Immanuel Kant Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: a priori, which has a certain and useful progression, reason slips in, without itself perceiving it, under this illusion, assertions of quite another kind, where... more », to given conceptions, it adds others entirely foreign, but a priori, without our knowing how it arrives at these, and without such a question ever coming into our thoughts. I will, therefore, at once, at the outset, treat of the difference of these two different kinds of Cognition. OF THE DIFFERENCE OF ANALYTICAL AND SYNTHETICAL . tr JUDGMENTS. In all judgments wherein the relationship of a subject to a Predicate is thought, (if I only consider the affirmative as the application to the negative is afterwards easy,) this relationship is possible in two ways. Either the predicate B belongs to the subject B, as something which is contained in the conception A, (in a covert manner,) or B lies completely out of the conception A, although it stands in connexion with it. In the first case, I name the judgment analytical, in the other synthetical. Analytical judgments (the affirmative) are consequently those in which is conceived the connexion of the predicate with the subject, through identity, but those in which this connexion is conceived, without identity, should be named synthetical judgments. We might name the first also explicative, the other extending judgments, since the former add, by means of the predicate, nothing to the conception of the subject, but only through analysis divide this into its constituent conceptions, which were thought already in the same, (although confusedly) whilst, on the contrary, the latter add a predicate to the conception of the subject, which was never at all thought in it, and which, through no analysis of the same, could have. been deduced. For example ; all bodies are extended—i...« less