Kant
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KANT
1. Empirical Idealism is the view that objects are nothing but perceptions, all objects become 'ideal', with no reality outside the concept. Kant set out to destroy Berkeley's world, with one very confusing idea; Transcendental (empirical objects are real, whereas transcendental objects are 'ideal', or not perceivable). Kant says that transcendental idealism is a form of empirical realism, thus empirical objects would be real. He says that space and time (forms of a priori intuition) are empirically real, and transcendentally ideal, they are the connection of objects and sense, that is they unite the object of sensibility with the act of understanding. Through understanding we get the 12 categories of understanding (substance, causality, reciprocity, etc) from these categories we can understand the appearance of the 'phenomena' world, (the 'noumenal' world is transcendental, and thus we can understand nothing of it). From this appearance Kant applies the transcendental deduction, which basically says; Experience is of the mind, these experiences must be related in law like ways. The only way this is possible is if we project these laws on the universe. Thus, to conclude our mind imposes structure upon experience.
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