Not a priori, for how can we know what belongs to things in themselves, since this never can be done by the dissection of our concepts (in analytical judgments)? We do not want to know what is contained in our concept of a thing (for the [concept describes what] belongs to its logical being), but what is in the actuality of the thing superadded to our concept, and by what the thing itself is determined in its existence outside the concept.
A priori ez, zeren nola jakingo genuke guk zer dagokien berbaitango gauzei?, hori ez baitago gure kontzeptuak analizatuz lortzerik (proposizio analitikoak). Izan ere, nik jakin nahi dudana ez da, nik gauza batez daukadan kontzeptuan zer jasota dagoen (ba hau haren izaki logikoari dagokio), baizik eta nik jakin nahi dudana da, ea gauza horren errealitatean zer gehitzen zaion kontzeptu horri, eta zerk determinatzen duen gauza hori bere existentzian nire kontzeptutik kanpora.