The Refutation of Idealism in the B-edition was added precisely because contemporaries like Garve and Feder correctly identified Kant's first edition as collapsing into Berkeleyan idealism.

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B-edition(as the specific text being discussed): The second, revised version of Kant's famous book 'Critique of Pure Reason' that he published in 1787, after changing some of his explanations.
Berkeleyan idealism(the particular version of idealism Kant wanted to avoid): The specific idealist philosophy of George Berkeley, who argued that physical objects don't exist independently—they only exist as ideas perceived by minds.
Garve and Feder(Kant's critics who prompted him to revise his work): Two contemporary philosophers who reviewed Kant's first edition and pointed out that his arguments seemed to accidentally support Berkeley's idealism.
Immanuel Kant(as the originator of this concept): An 18th-century German philosopher who developed major ideas about ethics, reasoning, and how we understand the world; he's famous for arguing that morality is based on universal rules that apply to everyone equally.

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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.

The Refutation of Idealism in the B-edition was added precisely because contemporaries like Garve and Feder correctly identified Kant's first edition as collapsing into Berkeleyan idealism.

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