System of Transcendental Idealism

know how to grasp, in which individual details
entirely vanish, and in which—provided it
is indeed the highest—the solution for all
possible tasks is surely contained in advance.
Thus, it is natural that during the first
establishment of a system, all investigations
descending into specifics are removed, and only
the first necessity—clarifying the principles; the foundational laws or axioms of a system
and placing them beyond all doubt—is addressed.
Meanwhile, every system finds the surest touchstone
original: Probirstein; a metaphor for a test or criterion used to judge the quality of something, like a stone used to test the purity of gold of its truth in the fact that it not only
resolves previously insoluble problems with ease,
but even calls forth entirely new ones previously
unthought of, and lets a new kind of truth
emerge from a general shaking of what was
previously accepted as true. This is precisely the
unique characteristic of transcendental idealism; a school of philosophy that suggests our experience of things is shaped by the necessary structures of our own minds,
that as soon as it is once granted, it places
one under the necessity of letting all knowledge; systematic or scientific understanding (Wissen)
emerge from the beginning, as it were, which already
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