Kant's Refutation of Idealism shows that inner experience (consciousness of my own existence as determined in time) is only possible through outer experience of persistent spatial objects.

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Determined in time(How our inner experience works): The experience of things changing, happening in sequence, and existing at different moments—your awareness that time is passing and things occur one after another.
Inner experience(as a way of accessing fundamental reality): Direct knowledge you have from within yourself—like your own thoughts, feelings, and consciousness—as opposed to learning about something from the outside.
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.
Outer experience(as contrasted with inner experience): Your awareness of things outside your mind—like seeing a tree, hearing a sound, or touching an object in the world around you.

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Refutation of Idealism(Added to the second edition (B); further developed in a series of Reflections.)

A transcendental argument added by Kant to the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason (B274–279), intended to demonstrate that external spatial objects must exist by deriving that claim from the fact that we have determinate awareness of the temporal order of our representations.

Kant's Refutation of Idealism shows that inner experience (consciousness of my own existence as determined in time) is only possible through outer experience of persistent spatial objects.

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