System of Transcendental Idealism

[...find its] ground solely in the inability to abstract from the multitude of individual problems which the busy imagination German: Einbildungskraft; the mental faculty that processes sensory data into images or concepts, drawing from the vast richness of experience, brings forward immediately upon encountering such an altered view—thereby confusing and unsettling the judgment.

One cannot deny the force of the proofs, nor is anything known that is certain and evident Latin: evidens; here meaning self-evident or intuitively clear to the mind enough to take the place of those principles German: Principien; the foundational axioms of a logical system. However, people fear the consequences—often portrayed as monstrous—which they foresee emerging from them, and they despair of ever solving all those difficulties that the principles must inevitably encounter when applied to the real world. Yet, since one can rightly demand of anyone who takes part in philosophical investigations at all that they be capable of every abstraction The mental process of isolating a general concept from specific, distracting details, and that they grasp the principles in their highest universality— The sentence is incomplete as it continues on the following page.