Kant's transcendental idealism establishes that space, time, and causality—the very structures enabling object-conception—are imposed by mind, not discovered in mind-independent reality.
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epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
transcendental idealism(Kant's own label for his philosophical position)
The position that the main forms of objects (spatiality, temporality, substantiality, causality, etc.) are imposed by the subject upon experience and therefore cannot be regarded as real forms of objects independent of our representations, while nonetheless maintaining that both selves and objects really exist independently of our representations of them.