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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.

    Kant's argument in B275-B279 presupposes the reliability of inner temporal experience, yet Hume's bundle theory dissolves the persistent self needed to anchor that temporal sequence.

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    Key Terms

    B275-B279(as a citation notation)
    A reference system for Kant's most famous book 'Critique of Pure Reason'—the 'B' means the second edition, and the numbers point to specific pages where a particular argument appears.
    Hume(as the main philosopher discussed in this statement)
    David Hume was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher who argued that human knowledge comes from experience and observation rather than pure reasoning alone.
    Inner temporal experience(as the subject Kant supposedly relies on)
    Your direct, personal awareness of time passing and events happening in sequence inside your own mind—like noticing your thoughts follow one after another.
    Kant(as used in epistemology and metaphysics)
    Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.

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    Persistent self(Buddhist philosophy questions whether this really exists)
    The idea that there is a continuous, unchanging 'you' that stays the same from moment to moment and lifetime to lifetime.
    anchor(Philosophy of religion; defining 'religion' via polythetic classification)
    A stipulated necessary property that a concept must possess in order to be considered a member of the category (e.g., religion), while not being sufficient on its own for category membership
    bundle theory(Philosophy of substance and ontology)
    The view that objects are constituted solely out of property-instances (tropes or universals), with no bare substratum
    reliability(what induction is trying to prove about itself)
    The quality of consistently producing correct or trustworthy results; something you can depend on to work.

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