http://www.survivalafterdeath.org/articles/kelly/personality.htm
What is Proof of Personality and its Persistence in this Life?
- M. Kelly -
.....This has brought philosophy into such contempt that many have forgotten that there was such a man as Kant, and that he revolutionised philosophy 126 years ago by conclusively proving in his Transcendental Aesthetik that our empirical knowledge depends on the forms of time and space, a priori existing in our intellect, time being the form of the inner sense and space that of the outer. At one blow he upset the dogmatic idealism of Berkeley and the sceptical of Des Cartes by showing that inner experience, which the latter looked upon as the only certainty, could not be possible without the existence of external objects.Some English writers on metaphysics, completely ignoring Kant's arguments, still look upon objects in space as realities in themselves, and endeavour to show how we derive the ideas of time, space, and causality from them, never thinking to ask themselves how on earth they could get any knowledge of an external object, to begin with, if these forms did not already exist preformed in their brains.
