E-text prepared by Meredith Bach, lizardcry, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/toronto) Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/kantknowledge00pricuoft Transcriber's note: 1. Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). 2. The original text includes Greek characters. For this text version these letters have been replaced with transliterations represented within square brackets [Greek: ]. Also greek letters alpha and beta are represented as [alpha] and [beta] in this text. 3. A subscript is indicated by an underscore followed by the subscript in curly braces. For example, a_{2} indicates a with subscript 2. 4. Footnotes have been moved to the end of the paragraph wherein they have been referred to. 5. Other than the corrections listed above, printer's inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation and hyphenation have been retained. KANT'S THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE by H. A. PRICHARD Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford Oxford At the Clarendon Press 1909 Henry Frowde, M.A. Publisher to the University of Oxford London, Edinburgh, New York Toronto and Melbourne PREFACE This book is an attempt to think out the nature and tenability of Kant's Transcendental Idealism, an attempt animated by the conviction that even the elucidation of Kant's meaning, apart from any criticism, is impossible without a discussion on their own merits of the main issues which he raises.