The Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant - Transcendental Idealism and the Refutation of Idealism
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Kant's Refutation of Idealism
Kant seeks to prove then that we have actual experience about our things and not just imagination of them. If there was that which remained permanent throughout one's experience, self, it would be a permanent representation and not a representation of the permanent. And if this permanence is outside me, it must be spatial as space is outside me. The arrow is reversed and that is how we understand inner experience.
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