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Single Idea 16923

[catalogued under 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism]

Full Idea

I do indeed admit that there are bodies outside us.

Gist of Idea

I admit there are bodies outside us

Source

Immanuel Kant (Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic [1781], 289 n.II)

Book Reference

Kant,Immanuel: 'Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic', ed/tr. Lucas,Peter G. [Manchester UP 1971], p.45


A Reaction

This is the end of a passage in which Kant very explicitly denies being an idealist. Of course, he says we can only know the representations of things, and not how they are in themselves.