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    Supports→Idealism cannot be shown to be superior to realism, dogmatism, or materialism on rational grounds alone.

    Fichte's recognition that the Wissenschaftslehre's founding posit of the absolute 'I' requires intellectual intuition rather than discursive proof confirms that idealism's ground is pre-rational.

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    Absolute 'I'(as the foundation of Fichte's system)
    The idea that there is a fundamental, ultimate thinking self that exists before and independent of everything else, and from which all reality flows.
    Discursive proof(as the opposite method of intellectual intuition)
    A logical argument that moves step-by-step from one idea to the next to reach a conclusion, like a chain of reasoning.
    Fichte(as a predecessor to Hegel)
    A German philosopher (1762-1814) who built on Kant's ideas and argued that the self becomes aware of itself by encountering other selves.
    Intellectual intuition(Kant, B307)
    A non-sensible kind of intuition that is not our own and whose possibility we cannot understand.
    Pre-rational(as a description of idealism's foundation)

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    Wissenschaftslehre(Its starting point cannot be philosophically established and requires prior extra-philosophical conviction of one's own freedom)
    Fichte's system of transcendental idealism, whose first principle is that 'the I freely posits itself.'
    idealism(Presented as a consequence of the coherence theory of truth, but not exclusive to it)
    The view that one's beliefs constitute the world

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