Immanuel Kant proposes a new science by which we would be able to examine and answer these questions. This science, transcendental idealism, finds as its focus the examination

... Karen McCarthy Explication of Space Thursday, September 29, 2005 Any attempt to understand knowledge inevitably leads to a series of inquiries into the nature of those things that we know and their relationships to those means by which we purport to know of things. Are there objects which are distinct from the thinker? If there are external objects, how can the individual assure herself that her understanding of the world is accurate? Immanuel Kant proposes a new science by which we would be able to examine and answer these questions. This science, transcendental idealism, finds as its focus the examination of what must necessarily be so to account for the experiences that we have.1 As part of his project, Kant looked to end the epistemological debate between the empiricists who held all knowledge to be dependant on direct experience and thus excluded any knowledge of abstract ideas, and the rationalists who allowed for

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