Then we attempted the analysis of the Hume Kant situation, and in the end we could elucidate it only by penetrating into its presuppositions and by proceeding from there to pose questions of our own, alien to the period itself, and by making clear to ourselves in a preliminary sketch, through a systematic process of thinking, the style of a truly scientific transcendental philosophy truly scientific in the sense that it works up from the bottom in self evident single steps and is thus in truth ultimately grounded and ultimately grounding.