Editing Thing-in-itself (section)

===Johann Gottlieb Fichte===

Initially [[Johann Gottlieb Fichte|Fichte]] embraced [[Kantian philosophy]], including a thing-in-itself, but the work of Schulze made him revise his position.
{{Blockquote|Aenesidemus, which I consider one of the most remarkable products of our decade, has convinced me of something which I admittedly already suspected: that even after the labors of Kant and Reinhold, philosophy is still not a science. Aenesidemus has shaken my own system to its very foundations, and, since one cannot live very well under the open sky, I have been forced to construct a new system. I am convinced that philosophy can become a science only if it is generated from one single principle, but that it must then become just as self-evident as geometry.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Fichte: Early Philosophical Writings|publisher=Cornell University Press|year=1993|pages=14}}</ref>
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The system which Fichte subsequently published, ''[[Wissenschaftslehre (Fichte)|Science of Knowledge]]'', scraps the thing-in-itself.<ref>{{Cite book|title=German idealism : the struggle against subjectivism, 1781–1801|year=2002|url=https://archive.org/details/germanidealismst00beis|url-access=limited|last=C. Beiser|first=Frederick|isbn=0-674-00769-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/germanidealismst00beis/page/n235 217]|publisher=Harvard University Press |quote=First, it eliminates the thing-in-itself and the given manifold.}}</ref>