ANALOGY OF EXPERIENCE

[A180/B223] (Associated by Kant with the categories of substance, causality, and community.) "An analogy of experience is...a rule according to which a unity of experience may arise from perception. It does not tell us how...perception or empirical intuition in general itself comes about", but does specify ways in which perceptions must be acted upon in the pure synthesis of the understanding (namely, such analogies specify exactly how the manifold of intuitions is to be synthesized with the categories)