The past only exists insofar as it is present in the records of today. And what those records are is determined by what questions we ask. There is no other history than that Wheeler 1982:24.Kant...accepted the notion of thingsinthemselves existing independently of any knowledge.... As his starting point [he took it] that any specific knowledge we claim to have of such and such an external object is obtained through our senses, [and] hence is at best only indirect and questionable.... What we know directly and with certainty is therefore only the set of our ideas. [For example,] the very notion of causality [is] an a priori mode of human understanding, in other words, an idea

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