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Ding an sich: The Thing-in-Itself

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The thing-in-itself is what Kant, said to synthesize continental rationalism and British empiricism, postulated in Critique of Pure Reason when examining experience itself as something behind experience and a necessary condition for making it possible. Responding to Hume’s claim that “nothing can be known except what is experienced through the senses,” Kant held that “something producing experience,” the “thing in itself,” must be presupposed, but that such “things in themselves” cannot be experienced. Things in themselves cannot be cognized and do not depend on our subjectivity for their existence. Nor do they follow the law of causality. According to Kant, there is no evidence whatsoever that the world of things-in-themselves exists. We do not know whether an intellectual order like the “thing-in-itself” exists, but subsequent experience will probably justify it.

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