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    Supports→Kant's Refutation of Idealism fails to provide leverage against external-world skepticism because a skeptic who doubts external objects would equally doubt memory of temporally ordered past experiences.

    If the self is just a bundle of impressions with no guaranteed continuity, then 'I remember A before B' requires exactly the kind of diachronic identity that skepticism about substance already undermines.

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    David Hume(as referenced in the statement)
    An 18th-century Scottish philosopher who argued that our desires and emotions, not reason alone, drive our actions and decisions.
    bundle of impressions(as used in philosophy of mind and personal identity)
    The idea that your 'self' is really just a collection of thoughts, feelings, and sensations you experience moment-to-moment, rather than one unified thing.
    continuity(Greek: sunecheia; Arabic: ittiṣāl)
    A property of bodies for which Aristotle provided at least three distinct accounts
    diachronic identity(Contrasted with identity consequences of counterfactuals concerning origin)
    The identity of an entity as it persists through time
    skepticism about substance

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    The doubt or denial that there is any permanent, unchanging 'stuff' or core that makes something what it is.

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