[] What we have here is a theory of cognition, but a theory of cognition in a double sense. The first meaning is that it attempts to lay the foundations of the sciences that in Kants eyes are established free from doubt, that is to say, of mathematics and the natural sciences. The second meaning lies in his attempt to restrict the possibility of knowledge of those absolute concepts that you may be disposed to regard as the most important. [] [p. 5]

[] connected with this is the fact that underlying Kants philosophy lies a huge confidence in the mathematical natural sciences; and that his philosophy is absolutely full of the spirit of these sciences. [] [p. 8] [] we possess an entire body of knowledge that actually does satisfy the criterion of absolute truth. Kants achievement only becomes comprehensible on the assumption that science provides the absolute knowledge which merely abstract speculation had failed to deliver. [][p.8]