System of Transcendental Idealism

...knowledge, a mutual meeting of both (the conscious and that which is in itself unconscious) is necessary; the task is: to explain this meeting.

3. In knowledge itself—insofar as I know—the objective and the subjective are so united that one cannot say which of the two possesses priority. There is no first and no second here; both are simultaneous and one. — In wanting to explain this identity; the state of being exactly the same or a single unity (Identität), I must have already abolished it The author argues that the very act of thinking about how the mind and the world connect forces us to treat them as separate things, even though in the actual moment of "knowing," they are one single experience.. In order to explain it, since nothing else is given to me besides those two factors of knowledge (as an explanatory principle), I must necessarily set one before the other, starting from one in order to arrive at the other; which of the two I start from is not determined by the task.

4. There are therefore only two possible cases.

A. Either the objective is made the first, and the question is: how does a subjective come to it that corresponds with it?

The concept of the subjective is not contained in the concept of the objective; rather, both mutually exclude each other. The subjective must