Consider the following two statements in the light of Kant's view of knowledge.
Assertion (A) Universality necessity and novelty are the critieria of knowledge.
Reason (R) Synthetic apriori judgement fulfills all the required criteria of knowledge.

A. Both (A) and (R) are true and R is the correct explanation of (A)

B. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

C. (A) is true, but (R) is the false

D. (A) is false, but (R) is true

Answer: Option A