... and form abstract concepts. The knowledge of ding-an-sich ("thing in itself"), or nouema, is impossible to attain. In Georg Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel's philosophy of "absolute idealism," reality is broken down by our distinction between it and our knowledge of it, and the understanding of reality is the understanding of our own concepts, and vice versa. Often defined as justified ... ...

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