An idea from Critique of Pure Reason

This does not make the world a dream. The rainbow is an appearance in the rain, and the raindrops are appearances too, and they are real for everyone who looks. What stays hidden is what anything is apart from a mind that meets it.

From Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

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