Experience is the utmost source of knowledge. People go through new experiences all the time, which gives rise to new knowledge. This means that future lives will always have new knowledge. Experience is also the source of understanding. Empirical knowledge is gained by experience and not innate ideas or deductive reasoning. It makes it difficult to explain whether reliable knowledge is gained without experience. Kant introduces two concepts, the Priori and Posteriori. Priori is the knowledge that an individual can have without experience. Posteriori is the knowledge that is gained through experience. Regardless, both concepts explain all knowledge.
Priori, according to Kant, is pure knowledge. This pure reason sets unavoidable problems such as immortality, God, and freedom. He, therefore, states that prior is the state’s phenomenon without explaining its origin or purpose. Mathematics cannot provide judgment empirically, therefore, prior. Mathematics does not need the experience to pass knowledge, but knowledge gained by study. The main purpose of the critic was to help Kant and the readers to distinguish the judgments. The above conclusion states that humans understand only two languages: sensitivity and understanding. Sensitivity contains priority representation which belongs to transcendental reasoning.
A posteriori knowledge is associated with synthetic judgments, while a priori knowledge is associated with analytic judgments. For example, the judgment that “all swans are white” is synthetic because whiteness is not part of the concept of “swan” (a black swan is still a swan even if it is not white). However, it is also posterior because we can only learn if all swans are white through experience. Analytic judgments are those in which the predicates are entirely contained in their subjects; because they add nothing to our understanding of the subject, they are purely explanatory and can be inferred from the principle of non-contradiction. On the other hand, synthetic judgments have completely separate predicates from their subjects, to which they must be shown to be related through some real connection outside of the concepts themselves.
There are expectations placed on the public on various behaviors on how they must conduct themselves, so the government may guide the public towards fulfilling their interests. This expectation prevents the public from destroying the government or its tactics; therefore, they must obey. It is the role of the community to be responsible and obey the rules set by the government. The people occupying the office should not question the authority given to them. Regardless of how the public criticizes levies placed by the government, they must pay taxes, failure to which they shall be punished. It is the role of the public to fulfill their civic duty.