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epistemology is first philosophy; that is to say

et forth to settle the battle between rationalism and empiricism. Kant decided to synthesize rationalism and empiricism by demonstrating that both experience and reason play a role in knowledge. Kant agreed with Hume that knowledge begins in sensation. He then went on to assert that knowledge ultimately comes to us via the understanding that structures and organizes sense data. Think about it this way: If the world of sense experience is all of the data that passes through your computer

your understanding is the operating system that makes sense of all of the data and allows you to access it. For Kant