"idealism consists in the assertion that there are none but thinking beings;all other things which we believe are perceived in intuitions are nothing but representations in the thinking being, to which no object external to them in fact corresponds."
in this quote, its kind of confusing what kant is trying to say. from my understanding he's talking about space and time. the external objects that we see, we know nothing of it but their appearance as he says. all objects are given through intuition which are given by our senses. we know nothing but its mere reflection. for instance space is nothing but just a representaion and only is known to our minds according to kant. basically we have no concept of space and time, we now nthing of it but its appearance. he ties all of this to geometry. geometry too is a priori and is the study of our pure intuition of space and time.
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Space and Time are things that we never see but its given that its there. Kant tries to explain that its just given its there, but that our senses percieve it is there. Time is always moving and we just know it is. Its been engraved in our minds that time is something that is forever constant.
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