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The topic of this paper is a criticism ventured by Heidegger against Kant’s attempt to prove the objective reality of the objects of experience. This proof is given by Kant in the Critique of Pure Reason as a refutation of psychological idealism.1 It has been further elucidated by Kant in the preface to the second edition, where he calls it “a scandal of philosophy and of human reason in general that the existence of things outside us must be accepted merely on faith, and that if anyone thinks good to doubt their existence, we are unable to counter his doubt by any satisfactory proof.”2 And Kant expresses the hope to have made up for this scandal by a strict proof.3
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Frede, D. (1986). Heidegger and the Scandal of Philosophy. In: Donagan, A., Perovich, A.N., Wedin, M.V. (eds) Human Nature and Natural Knowledge. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 89. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5349-9_7
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