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From the introduction to the prolegomena by Cambridge
"During his “silent decade” Kant had undertaken to evaluate the very
possibility of metaphysical cognition. This led him to investigate the
“origin” of that cognition in the faculties of the human mind. He came
to see metaphysical cognition, as well as the fundamental propositions
of mathematics and natural science, as having a peculiar, and hitherto
unrecognized, cognitive status, which he described as “synthetic a priori.”
Kant divided all judgments, and the propositions expressing those
judgments, into “analytic” and “synthetic.” He held that an analytic judgment
can be known to be true solely on the basis of the concepts used in
the judgment, because the predicate term is already “contained in” the
concept of the subject. Thus, the judgment “ontology is the science of
being” could be known to be true solely by reflection on the concept of
ontology, for this concept includes the meaning “science of being.” In
synthetic judgments, by contrast, the predicate term adds something new to the concept of the subject. “Metaphysics is in trouble” is a synthetic
judgment Kant would have accepted – but on any reasonable definition, “being in trouble” was not part of the very concept of metaphysics. Kant also divided propositions into a posteriori, i.e., “based on sensory experience,” and a priori, i.e., “known independently of sensory experience.” Neither of these divisions was wholly new with Kant; what was new was his suggestion that metaphysical cognition is characterized by synthetic a priori propositions, that is, by propositions in which a new predicate is conjoined to the subject term, and in which the basis for this connection is known a priori, independently of sensory experience."