 Hence Fechner’s defense of atomism is not what it first appears to be, or at least not what he pretends it to be. It does not carve out a realm of experience in which atomism holds, then leaving aside a transcendent realm which is the proper domain of metaphysics. Instead, Fechner argues that there is no such transcendent realm and that metaphysics deludes itself when it speculates about it. In this respect, Fechner’s attack on metaphysics anticipates exactly what Otto Liebmann would write ten years later in his famous Kant und die Epigonen (1865). 