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but that instead of showing that you have
no right to say the thing is to read they conclusively
prove that you have logically justified
in doing so. At this point, the
idealist appears before the tribunal of your
reason with the suggestion that since these
metaphysical conceptions, that repose upon their being involved in the forms of logic
are only valid for experience
and since all our knowledge is relative
to the human mind, they are not valid
for things as they objectively are; and since
the conception of existence is preëminently
a conception of that description, it is a
mere fairy-tale to say that outward
objects exist, the only objects of possible
experience being our own ideas. Hereupon