Full Idea
Kant describes knowledge in terms of a 'threefold synthesis', in which something is first 'apprehended' as affecting the mind, then is 'reproduced' in the imagination, and finally is 'recognised' via a concept which classifies it.
Gist of Idea
Knowledge is threefold: apprehension, reproduction by imagination, recognition by concepts
Source
report of Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781]) by Andrew Bowie - Introduction to German Philosophy 1 'Judgement'
Book Reference
Bowie,Andrew: 'Introduction to German Philosophy' [Polity 2003], p.24
A Reaction
Helpful. How does this distinguish knowledge from error (as Russell would enquire)? Is the 'apprehended', then, the unconceptualised 'Given'? I think that is what later German philosophers rebelled against in Kant.