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:'''''Prolegomenon''' (plural "prolegomena") refers to any introduction or essay at the beginning of a book.''
'''''Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science''''' is one of the shorter works by the German philosopher [[
''Prolegomena'' contains a kind of a summary of the ''Critique''‘s main conclusions, sometimes by [[argument]]s Kant had not used in the ''Critique''. Kant characterizes his more accessible approach here as an "[[Philosophical analysis|analytic]]" one, as opposed to the ''Critique''‘s "synthetic" examination of successive [[Faculty psychology|faculties]] of the mind and their principles.<ref>Analytic and synthetic methods are not the same as analytic and synthetic judgments. The analytic method proceeds from the known to the unknown. The synthetic method proceeds from the unknown to the known. In §§ 4 and 5, Kant asserted that the analytic method assumes that cognitions from pure reason are known to actually exist. We start from this trusted knowledge and proceed to its sources which are unknown. Conversely, the synthetic method starts from the unknown and penetrates by degrees until it reaches a system of knowledge that is based on reason.</ref>
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