The first of these forms of philosophy manifested itself initially in Fichte's undertaking to deduce genetically the totality of the transcendentaldomain from the pure, universal, and empty laws of thought; this opened up a field of inquiry in which an attempt is made either to reduce all transcendental reﬂection to the analysis of formalisms, or to discover, in transcendental subjectivity, a basis for the possibility of all formalism.