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Quotation from Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
“their representations may very well be the mere products of the imagination (in dreams as well as in madness”
Critique of Pure Reason, Refutation of Idealism, Remark III (B 278–279), trans. J. M. D. Meiklejohn (1855)
Kant concedes that particular representations of outer things may be imaginary, while arguing that such images still depend on earlier real perceptions.
Citation: "their representations may very well be the mere products of the imagination (in dreams as well as in madness" — Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, Refutation of Idealism, Remark III (B 278–279), trans. J. M. D. Meiklejohn (1855). (id critique-of-pure-reason-q9)
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