In this reading, Kant talks about two different kinds of statements, analytic and synthetic. He says that an analytic statement as an statement "whose predicate is contained implicitly in its subject." For instance, saying something like a bachelor is an unmarried man or a circle is round, would be examples of such statements because these statements are empty because they don't convey anything beyond what's already there in the subject. A synthetic statement, he says are one "whose predicate is not contained strictly in its subject." Like saying that Tom is a bachelor, you might know Tom is without knowing that he is a bachelor.