German idealism is in part characterized by its attempt to provide a justification for our knowledge of the world in response to Hume's problem of induction. In looking at three major philosophers of this time period - Kant, Fichte, and Hegel - a pattern emerges among their respective treatments of metaphysical propositions and their methods of grounding metaphysics. This project follows the development of the proposition of metaphysics from the synthetic a priori in Kant, through the analytic in Fichte, to the speculative in Hegel. This speculative proposition allowed Hegel's dialectics to...