Right in the opening section of his paper on "Transcendental Proofs in the Critique of Pure Reason"¹ Baum displays discontent with those interpreters who suppose that instead of asking: How are synthetic a priori judgments possible?, Kant is really asking: What are the necessary conditions of a possible experience?² Baum is of the opinion that strategies which reduce Kant's question to that form cannot give a satisfying account of the sort of theory the Critique of Pure Reason has to offer.