 Ironically, the view that Kant is—perhaps despite his fervent denials—an idealist of the Berkeleyan variety arose in one of the first critical appraisals of the Critique, the so-called Garve-Feder review of  1782.[27]  In the Prolegomena, written directly after the review, Kant  is concerned to distinguish his version of idealism from  Berkeley’s; one point he emphasizes hinges on their differing  conceptions of space. In considering the question of why his early  critics Garve and Feder interpreted him as a Berkeleyan idealist, he  writes: