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In defending his synthetic “a priori” knowledge, it was still not clear whether humankind actually had real knowledge of external things, or only just a second-rate knowledge of the appearance of external things. Further, the choice of using a dialectic as method for philosophy appeared to his critics as a dogmatic assertion, an example of the very thing that Kant had elsewhere rejected as unsuitable for philosophical inquiry. Others thought Kant had not gone far enough with his skepticism, and that he had merely catalogued the psychological workings of the human mind in a way that could not hope to apprehend the remote objects of the external world one was attempting to study.