What are and what are the differences between judgments of perception and judgments of experience for Kant? Understanding how the mind works was one of the main objectives of all philosophy and a part This is about how humans come to experience the world. Many philosophers have attempted to investigate this issue, and Hume successfully proposed a framework through which human understanding could be understood. These writings, however, stimulated Kant's philosophical mind, awakening him from his "dogmatic sleep" and leading him to develop his own framework for defining thought. Since Kant strongly disagreed with Hume's position that "it was quite impossible for reason to think a priori," he set out to correct Hume's erroneous view of custom regarding objective and subjective reality.¹ The external world , as defined by Kant, is referred to as nature, and "nature considered materialiter is the totality of all objects of experience" (Kant, 36). Human interaction with nature leads to judgments about experience, and these are empirical by definition (p. 38). Empirical judgments, however, are not limited to judgments based on experience. Judgments of perception and judgments of experience all constitute empirical judgments, and there are significant differences between the two (p. 38). To adequately define judgments of perception and judgments of experience, one must first examine the general framework of thought that precedes them. Kant begins by breaking cognition into two distinct parts: analytic and synthetic judgments (p. 9). Analytical judgments are simply statements about the status of some object and essentially serve as definitions. Analytical judgments are true in virtue, since “in the predicate they express nothing other than what is there… in the middle of the paper… when one looks to the pure intellect. Since these concepts exist a priori, it is interesting that they are used to understand experience. Kant is careful in the application of his framework, however, as the goal of his writings was to delineate the boundaries of metaphysics as a science and to determine whether "such a thing as metaphysics is possible at all" (p. 1). Unfortunately for Kant, it is impossible that all things can be described with objective reality, as seen in the case of the soul (p. 86). Although “the determinable limits [of reason] cannot be thought,” Kant successfully established a framework for examining thought and experience (p. 87). This framework exists in itself as subjective, however, and truly shows how pervasive metaphysics is. Works Cited Kant, Immanuel. Prolegomena to any future metaphysics. New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1950.