id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7872 Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics - Wikipedia .html text/html 7967 705 59 Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science (German: Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik, die als Wissenschaft wird auftreten können) is a book by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, published in 1783, two years after the first edition of his Critique of Pure Reason. In it, an abstract examination of the concepts of the sources of pure reason results in knowledge of the actual science of metaphysics. The Critique of Pure Reason, however, asserts that it is uncertain whether or not external objects are given, and we can only know their existence as a mere appearance. The concepts of substance/accident, cause/effect, and action/reaction (community) constitute a priori principles that turn subjective appearances into objective experiences. The principles that contain the reference of the pure concepts of the understanding to the sensed world can only be used to think or speak of experienced objects, not things in themselves. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7872.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7872.txt