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Full Idea
The understanding can never accomplish a priori anything more than to anticipate the form of a possible experience in general.
Gist of Idea
A priori the understanding can only anticipate possible experiences
Source
Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B303/A246)
Book Ref
Kant,Immanuel: 'Critique of Pure Reason', ed/tr. Guyer,P /Wood,A W [CUO 1998], p.345
A Reaction
This is why many people think that Kant brough metaphysical (ontological) speculation to an end. He asserts that synthetic a priori knowledge is possible, but then imposes a huge limitation on it.
| 12518 | The mind cannot produce simple ideas [Locke] |
| 5567 | A priori the understanding can only anticipate possible experiences [Kant] |
| 16914 | A priori intuition of objects is only possible by containing the form of my sensibility [Kant] |
| 16909 | Logic is a priori because we cannot think illogically [Wittgenstein] |
| 12416 | We have some self-knowledge a priori, such as knowledge of our own existence [Kitcher] |
| 9339 | A priori knowledge (e.g. classical logic) may derive from the innate structure of our minds [Horwich] |
| 3913 | Maybe imagination is the source of a priori justification [Casullo] |