may 25, 1781 - Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant

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a 1781 book by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, in which the author seeks to determine the limits and scope of metaphysics.
Kant builds on the work of empiricist philosophers such as John Locke and David Hume, as well as rationalists such as Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Christian Wolff. He expounds new ideas on the nature of space and time, and tries to provide solutions to Hume's scepticism regarding human knowledge of the relation of cause and effect, and René Descartes' scepticism regarding knowledge of the external world. This is argued through the transcendental idealism of objects (as appearance) and their form of appearance.