Immanuel Kant Song

Let us first divide cognition into rational analysis and sensory perception (which Descartes considered valueless). Now reason gives us concepts which are true but tautological; sensation gives us images whose content is phenomenal. Whatever greets our senses must exist in space and time for else it would be nowhere and nowhen and therefore slime; the space and time we presuppose before we sense reality must have innate subjective transcendental ideality. Thus space and time are forms of our perception whereby sensation’s synthesized in orderly array; the same must hold for rational conception: in everything we think, the laws of logic must hold sway. But a problem here arises with respect to natural science: while empirical in method, on pure thought it lays reliance. Although for Newton’s findings we to Newton give the glory Newton never could have found them if they weren’t known a priori. We know that nature governe