An idea from Critique of Pure Reason

What you can know is an island, “surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the region of illusion.” The thing in itself marks the shore: a limit, not a place to visit. Critics since Jacobi in 1787 ask how an unknowable thing can act on your senses.

From Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

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