Idealism is not possible to infer the 'I' as an object (Descartes' "cogito ergo sum") purely from "the spontaneity of thought". Kant focused on ideas drawn from British philosophers such as Locke, Berkeley and Hume but distinguished his transcendental or critical idealism from previous varieties; Kant distinguished between things as they appear to an observer and things in themselves, "that is, things considered without regard to whether and how they may be given to us". We cannot approach the "noumenon", the "thing in Itself" () without our own mental world. He added that the mind is not a blank slate, "tabula
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