creator a world in which to live where the illusion seemed to be true. If we were to begin on the one side with Immanuel Kant, we would hear the argument that although we must assume the existence of God if we are to explain ourselves to ourselves as moral beings, yet we cannot know him. Indeed, we do not even know external reality in itself; all we know is our own ideas about external reality, and these ideas do not necessarily correspond with what is there. But from Kant’s time to our own day,