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A priori means nothing other than not gained by way of experience, not come into us from outside

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A priori means nothing other than not gained by way of experience, hence not come into us from outside.

Denn a priori bedeutet nichts Anderes, als »nicht auf dem Wege der Erfahrung gewonnen, also nicht von außen in uns gekommen«.

For a priori means nothing other than »not gained by way of experience, hence not come into us from outside«.

Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, Erster Band Anhang, Kritik der Kantischen Philosophie, the paragraph beginning »Die transscendentale Aesthetik ist ein so überaus verdienstvolles Werk« (ZA II 536–537)

The fourth sentence of the paragraph, opening with »Denn«, which marks it as the first ground of c-schopenhauer-a-priori-cognitions-explained-only-as-forms-of-the-intellect; the definition stands in Schopenhauer's own guillemets, kept in the translation. It is premise 2 of the checked argument a-schopenhauer-cognitions-a-priori-are-the-intellects-own-forms, where it gives the step from a cognition's being a priori to its not having come from outside, »also«. The sentence defines the word and asserts nothing of which cognitions are a priori.

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