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sense fails to yield reality, thought must cease to
yield truth. 1

Such are Kant's final conclusions in the Critique,
and by them the transition is at last made quite
out beyond one and all of the Cartesian assumptions.
Since consciousness of time involves consciousness
of objects interconnected in space, so far is it from
being true that we can only be conscious of sub-
jective states, that on the contrary, we can never be
conscious of anything purely subjective. The distinc-
tion between self and not-self, between inner and
outer, is not a distinction between our experience
and what lies outside it, but a purely relative
distinction within the unity of our objective ex-
perience. Our knowledge of external objects is as
his earlier views, and being inconsistent with his fundamental
principles may be ignored.

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1 In the Prolegomena Kant formulates the fundamental
principle of his philosophy in a way that brings out in a
striking manner his agreement with Hume in opposition to
Descartes. "The principle of all genuine Idealists, from the
Eleatic school to Bishop Berkeley, is contained in this formula:

'All knowledge by sense and experience is nothing but mere
appearance, and truth is to be found only in the ideas of pure
understanding and reason.' The principle which throughout
governs and determines my Idealism is: 'All knowledge of
things from pure understanding or pure reason is nothing
but mere appearance, and truth is to be found only in
experience'": Werke, IV. p. 121.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Studies in the Cartesian Philosophy. Contributors: Norman Smith - author. Publisher: Macmillan. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1902. Page Number: 265.
    
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