Full Idea
Fichte retained a broadly Kantian conception of how things are in themselves.
Gist of Idea
Fichte believed in things-in-themselves
Source
report of Johann Fichte (works [1798]) by A.W. Moore - The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics 07.2
Book Reference
Moore,A.W.: 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics' [CUP 2013], p.165
A Reaction
The contrast is between those who believe in the thing-in-itself, while admitting that we can't know it, and those who deny such a thing. The debate returned 130 years later as verificationism in language.
Related Ideas
Idea 21972 Hegel, unlike Kant, said how things appear is the same as how things are [Hegel, by Moore,AW]
Idea 21968 Abandon the thing-in-itself; things only exist in relation to our thinking [Fichte]