The article explains Bernard Lonergan's theory of how we know things. Lonergan breaks it down into three main questions: what am I doing when I know something, why am I doing that knowing, and what do I know when I do it. He believes that understanding how we know things is crucial before we can understand what we know. Lonergan's approach is different from Kant's, focusing on the conditions necessary for knowing without the object being known. This distinction is important in Lonergan's analysis.