Kant argued in the Critique of Pure Reason that the mind imposes its own a priori structures onto experience, meaning innate ideas trace to the intellect's spontaneity, not to independently existing things.

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Critique of Pure Reason(as the specific work where Kant discussed these ideas): Kant's major philosophical book (published 1781) examining the limits of human knowledge and arguing that our minds actively structure our experience of the world.
Kant(as used in epistemology and metaphysics): 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.
Spontaneity (in this context)(describing where innate ideas come from): The mind's active, self-generating power to produce ideas and structure experience on its own, rather than just copying what it receives from the world.
a priori(Frege treats 'analytic' as entailing 'a priori' for arithmetic.): Knowable independently of empirical experience; here treated as a consequence of analyticity.
innate ideas(Leibniz's rationalist account of the source of necessary knowledge): Ideas and principles present in the mind prior to and independent of sensory experience, enabling grasp of necessary truths.

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