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We are conscious of a part of our cognitions a priori, a fact strictly proved by Kant

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That we are conscious of a part of our cognitions a priori is a fact, strictly proved by Kant.

Die von ihm streng bewiesene Thatsache, daß ein Theil unserer Erkenntnisse uns a priori bewußt ist, läßt gar keine andere Erklärung zu, als daß diese die Formen unsers Intellekts ausmachen:

The fact, strictly proved by him, that we are conscious of a part of our cognitions a priori admits of no other explanation than that these constitute the forms of our intellect:

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 subject of the third sentence of the paragraph, »Die von ihm streng bewiesene Thatsache, daß ein Theil unserer Erkenntnisse uns a priori bewußt ist«: the sentence presupposes the fact and attributes its proof to Kant, »ihm«, named in the first sentence, and the map takes the presupposition as a claim because the paragraph's argument rests on it. What the sentence predicates of the fact is c-schopenhauer-a-priori-cognitions-explained-only-as-forms-of-the-intellect. The claim is premise 1 of the checked argument a-schopenhauer-cognitions-a-priori-are-the-intellects-own-forms. Kant's own statement of it in the map is for space, A 24 / B 38 (c-kant-space-a-priori); no link is set, since this statement names no cognition and Kant's names one, and the comparison x-thing-in-itself says so.

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