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Empirical idealism

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Empirical idealism may refer to two distinct positions in Western philosophy:

  • Subjective idealism or immaterialism, the empiricist George Berkeley's view that experience leads to this conclusion: all of reality consists of minds or ideas, including what we perceive as physical objects
  • Transcendental idealism, Immanuel Kant's view that, prior to or beyond mere experience, the mind is fashioned with certain innate and biased ways of processing experience

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