Book I. The Analytic of Concepts

Introductory Paragraph.—Kant’s view of the understanding as a separate faculty is in evidence again in this paragraph. The Analytic is a “dissection of the faculty of the understanding.” A priori concepts are to be sought nowhere but in the understanding itself, as their birthplace. There “they lie ready till at last, on the occasion of experience, they become developed.” But such statements fail to do justice to Kant’s real teaching. They would seem to reveal the persisting influence of the pre-Critical standpoint of the Dissertation.