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undivided in every representing being. Hence a single one of these beings with the object completes the world as representation just as fully as do the millions that exist. And if that single one were to disappear, then the world as representation would no longer exist. Therefore these halves are inseparable even in thought, for each of the two has meaning and existence only through and for the other; each exists with the other and vanishes with it."].
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agreed with Schulze: , in which aspect alone we are here considering it, has two essential, necessary, and inseparable halves. The one half is the object, whose forms are space and time, and through these plurality. But the other half, the subject, does not lie in space and time, for it is whole and
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If we were to take critical philosophy seriously, we would commit ourselves to resolving experiences into two parts — a system of universal subjective forms on one side, and a mass of amorphous, meaningless objective matter on the other.
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Reinhold wrote that true skepticism rested on the fact that only the observing subject felt what was in its consciousness. The only truth is the subject's notion that there is an object that agrees with its internal mental representation.
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Kant and Reinhold claimed that the reality of objects can be known from the representations in the mind of the observing subject. This is inferring objective reality from subjective thought. Such an inference is the
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Aenesidemus oder über die Fundamente der von dem Herrn Professor Reinhold in Jena gelieferten Elementar-Philosophie. Nebst einer Vertheidigung des Skepticismus gegen die Anmassungen der Vernunftkritik
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Aenesidemus or Concerning the Foundations of the Philosophy of the Elements Issued by Professor Reinhold in Jena Together with a Defense of Skepticism against the Pretensions of the Critique of Reason
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or non-existence of the thing-in-itself. By establishing general principles, we can't know the limits of our ability to know. Progressive development, however, can approach complete knowledge.
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does not require that the soul have faculties. Rather, psychology is a detailed description and systematic classification of actual mental events.
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No skeptic can doubt the reality and certainty of mental representations and mental events that are immediately given through consciousness.
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How can we be sure that Kant's obligation to be moral is the result of freedom? It might be the result of some irrational natural force.
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doubts the possibility of knowledge about the existence or non-existence of the thing-in-itself. Kant, however, was guilty of
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agreed with Reinhold's subjectivity. He based his own idealism on the observing subject's internal forms of knowledge.
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Kant's critical philosophy is self-contradictory. He said that things-in-themselves cause sensations in an
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in that he presupposed that the thing-in-itself exists and causally interacts with observing subjects.
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Skepticism does not claim that metaphysical questions cannot be answered.
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The book was supposed to be a written correspondence between Hermias (
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philosopher. Its complete title, in English translation, was
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of drawing existential conclusions from logical premises.
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in 1792. Schulze attempted to refute the principles that
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is a German book published anonymously by Professor
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Index

Gottlob Ernst Schulze
Helmstedt
Karl Leonhard Reinhold
Immanuel Kant
Critique of Pure Reason
Aenesidemus
Pyrrhonist
German
Greek
Hermes
David Hume
skepticism about induction
causality
soul
thing-in-itself
Philosophy
existence
Skepticism
begging the question
fallacy
observer
mind
causality
noumena
category
understanding
phenomena
God
Free Will
Immortal

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