The Science of Knowledge: With the First and Second Introductions (Texts in German Philosophy)

You know when the title is mistranslated that you are in for trouble. "Wissenschaftslehre" is correctly translated as "Doctrine of Science," not "Science of Knowledge." Fichte wants to convince us that there is no thing-in-itself. There is only a phenomenal, appearing, world. Your Ego "posits" itself and creates an image of an external world (an Id). Schopenhauer likened this philosophy to a spider's philosophy. The Ego, like a spider, spins the known world out from itself in the way that a spider spins its web. Was Fichte right? Is there no thing-in-itself?