If concepts can function cognitively through analogy rather than direct intuition, Kant's P1 — that knowledge requires intuition — is not a universal constraint but an assumption tied to his specific faculty psychology.
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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.
Universal constraint(as describing whether Kant's rule about intuition applies everywhere)
A rule or requirement that applies to everything and everyone, no exceptions—as opposed to something that's just true in certain situations or for certain people.
analogy(Contrasted with homology, which concerns correspondence due to common ancestry.)
A relation based on functional similarity between structures, which can occur despite different evolutionary origins.
concepts(Pietroski (2018))
Mental representations of a certain kind
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.