Analytic of Conceptions.
SS 2
BY the term "Analytic of Conceptions," I do not understand the
analysis of these, or the usual process in philosophical
investigations of dissecting the conceptions which present themselves,
according to their content, and so making them clear; but I mean the
hitherto little attempted dissection of the faculty of understanding
itself, in order to investigate the possibility of conceptions a
priori, by looking for them in the understanding alone, as their
birthplace, and analysing the pure use of this faculty. For this is
the proper duty of a transcendental philosophy; what remains is the
logical treatment of the conceptions in philosophy in general. We
shall therefore follow up the pure conceptions even to their germs and
beginnings in the human understanding, in which they lie, until they
are developed on occasions presented by experience, and, freed by
the same understanding from the empirical conditions attaching to
them, are set forth in their unalloyed purity.
