Johann Gottlieb Fichte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Johann Gottlieb Fichte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Fichte did not endorse Kant's argument for the existence of noumena, of 'things in themselves', the super-sensible reality beyond the categories of human reason. Fichte saw the rigorous and systematic separation of 'things in themselves' (noumena) and things 'as they appear to us' (phenomena) as an invitation to skepticism.

Rather than invite such skepticism, Fichte made the radical suggestion that we should throw out the notion of a noumenal world and instead accept the fact that consciousness does not have a grounding in a so-called 'real world'. In fact, Fichte achieved fame for originating the argument that consciousness is not grounded in anything outside of itself."