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This revisionist exposition of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason addresses the themes and passages in the text which seem to require an idealist thesis and shows how they may be better understood without ascribing any idealist philosophy to Kant. The text coheres with Kant's explicit refutations of idealism and fits his rejection of the imputation of idealism to him by early critics and readers, and it validates Kant's contention that the second edition of the Critique changes the expression but not the doctrine of the first.