Criticism is not opposed to the dogmatic procedure of reason in its pure cognition as science (for science must always be dogmatic,.e., it must prove its conclusions strictly a priori from secure principles)a; rather, it is opposed only to dogmatism,.e., to the presumption of getting on solely with pure cognition from (philosophical) concepts according to principles,b which reason has been using for a long time without first inquiring in what way and by what right it has obtained them.