 Through his efforts to work out a kind of gestaltist psychology that could frame this third law of imaginative completion, Dilthey came to modify some of his basic assumptions. He came to realize that the overall psychic nexus of an individual was not a sufficient contextual frame to explain human experience. Our experience can only be understood by describing it as it as a continuum that is gradually acquired over time. What he calls the “acquired psychic nexus” is itself historically embedded in a social world. This means that our access to history is much more direct than our access to nature. We feel ourselves as part of history whereas nature has come to increasingly stand apart from us. Although Dilthey is still willing to accept that objects of outer experience are phenomenal, he no longer accepts the Kantian thesis that the contents of inner experience are phenomenal as well. Inner experience is reconceived as lived experience (Erlebnis) that is real and the time that relates us to history is not merely the ideal form that Kant had exposited for nature.