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    Supports→The Refutation of Idealism does not address the sense of idealism at issue in phenomenalist readings of transcendental idealism

    Kant's target in the Refutation is idealism defined as the claim that objects in space do not exist (dogmatic idealism) or that we cannot know whether they exist (problematic idealism)

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    Dogmatic idealism(Kant's own definition as stated in the Prolegomena and the Fourth A Paralogism)
    The claim that objects in space do not exist
    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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    (what idealism questions the existence or knowability of)
    Physical things—like tables, trees, or people—that exist in the three-dimensional world around us.
    Problematic idealism(Kant's own definition as stated in the Prolegomena and the Fourth A Paralogism)
    The claim that we do not know whether objects in space exist
    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
    refutation(SR 6 168a37)
    A proof of the contradictory of the thesis maintained by the answerer

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    Nothing about this conclusion, or how Kant argues for it, is prima facie incompatible with a qualified phenomenalist reading of transcendental idealism, or even a strong phenomenalist one.[21] It may be incompatible with “identity” phenomenalism, since Kant argues that self-consciousness requires the existence of permanent objects in space, yet there is no permanent representation in the mind (B278). If objects just are representations, it follows that none of them are permanent.[22] At B274

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