The doctrines taught by Idealists.
taught by Fechte (2 syl.), supposes the object (say a tree) and the
image of it on the mind is all ore. Or rather, that there is no object
outside the mental idea.
taught by Schelling, supposes thatthe tree and the image thereof on
the mind are distinct from each other.
taught by Hegel, supposes there is no such thing as phonomers, that
mind, through the senses, creates its own world. In fact, that there is
no real, but all is mere ideal.
These are three German philosophers:
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894