System of Transcendental Idealism

through which nature first completely returns into itself, and through which it becomes evident that nature is originally identical with that which is recognized within us as intelligent and conscious.

This may be sufficient to prove that natural science Naturwissenschaft; the systematic study of the physical world has the necessary tendency to make nature intelligent; it is through this very tendency that it becomes philosophy of nature Natur-Philosophie; a major movement in German Idealism that sought to understand nature as a living, self-organizing system rather than a dead machine, which is the one necessary fundamental science of philosophy. *)

B. Or the subjective is made the primary element, and the task is this: how does an objective element join with it that corresponds to it?

If all knowledge rests on the agreement Original: "Uebereinstimmung." This refers to the "correspondence theory of truth," where a thought is true if it matches an object in the world. of these two (1), then the task—to explain this agreement—is without doubt—

*) The further elaboration of the concept of a philosophy of nature, and its necessary tendency, is to be found in the author's writings: First Sketch of a System of the Philosophy of Nature, together with the Introduction to this Sketch, and the Explanations which the first issue of the Journal for Speculative Physics Speculative Physics; a branch of philosophy that attempts to deduce the laws of nature through reason rather than just empirical observation will contain.