1. The contrast between rationalism and empiricism is the is the source of knowledge. Rationalism holds that reason to be the reliable source of knowledge; this sharply contrasts with empiricists, who believe experience of the outside world as the reliable source of knowledge. Transcendental holds that the world around us is similar to what appears to us, but not one in the same. Transcendental realism relies on reason and critical evaluation of experience in order achieve knowledge. Skepticism holds that some, if not all, human knowledge is impossible.
2. Transcendental idealism makes the most sense to me in its seeming practicality. Rationalism seems incorrect in holding the origin of knowledge from oneself rather from the surrounding
