Idealisms and their refutations

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by Oxford University

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Lecture 5/8. The very possibility of self-awareness (an "inner sense" with content) requires an awareness of an external world by way of "outer sense". Only through awareness of stable elements in the external world is s...

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