the dark side of--Kant's dictum in the Critique of Pure Reason that a human being can trust his intuitions, can in effect trust the moral weight of the reactions generated when sense experiences singly or in combination wash over him or her. This is different from seeking out particular kinds of sense experience and trying to understand them. Instead, Kant's method is to embrace experience and by using reason see what the experience reveals. Thus does the rational mind refine and move toward insight via logical processes; such processes are the frame of reason, and through them significance and principles can be gradually discerned.
The same function which imparts unity to the various representations in one judgment imparts unity likewise to the mere synthesis of various representations in one intuition, and this unity may be called the pure concept of the understanding. The same understanding, by the same operati
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