"For if experience is to teach us laws to which the existence of things is subject, these laws, if they refer to things in themselves, would have to refer to them of necessity even outside our experience. But experience teaches us what exists and how it exists but never that it must necessarily exist so and not otherwise. Experience therefore can never teach us the nature of things in themselves"
This quote is very confusing. I don't really get what Kant is saying. At he says experience teaches us laws about the existence of things and these laws refer to the needs outside of our experience. But experience teaches us what exist but it doesnt teach us that it must neccessarily exist? How can experience teach us what exists but that the things that exist don't really exist?
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