Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Epistemology, Immanuel Kant

Idealism is often defined as the view that everything which exists is mental; that is, everything is either a mind or depends for its existence upon a mind, as do ideas and thinking. Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804) was not strictly an idealist according to this definition, although he called himself a �transcendental idealist.� On his view, humans can know only what is presented to their

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