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    Kant's idealism should be called 'formal' or 'critical' idealism, not 'material' idealism

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    • 1.Transcendental idealism identifies space and time with our forms of intuition
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    • 2.Transcendental idealism does not deny the reality of objects in space and time
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    • 3.Material idealism reduces all reality to ideas and the minds that have them
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    • 1.Kant explicitly states in the Critique that 'objects conform to our cognition,' making mind constitutive of the structure of experience itself.
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    • 2.If the forms of intuition (space and time) are mind-dependent conditions for any possible object, then objects as experienced are ontologically dependent on mind.
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    • 3.A position that makes all experienced objects ontologically dependent on mental conditions is materially idealist, regardless of the label Kant preferred.
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    • 1.Jacobi's critique established that Kant's thing-in-itself is incoherent: causation (a category) cannot apply beyond experience to ground the affection of the subject.
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    • 2.If the thing-in-itself is eliminable from a consistent reading of Kant, as Fichte and later Hegel argued, the remaining position collapses into subjective idealism.
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    • 3.A 'formal' idealism that cannot coherently maintain mind-independent things-in-themselves is functionally indistinguishable from material idealism.
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    Kant himself did not think so, of course. He was utterly committed to transcendental idealism. When confronted with the challenge that transcendental idealism was nothing but Berkeleianism, however, that is, the reduction of all reality to ideas and the minds that have them, he recoiled. This objection was made in the first substantial review of the first edition of the Critique, written from an empiricist point of view by Christian Garve and then redacted by J.H. Feder in 1782 (Garve-Feder 1782
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    Transcendental idealism does not deny the reality of objects in space and time
    Transcendental idealism identifies space and time with our forms of intuition
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