Transcendental analytic
Transcendental analytic
The first part of Kant’s Logic; its function is “the dissection of the whole of our a priori knowledge into the elements of the pure cognition of the understanding,” (Kritik d. reinen Vemunft, Part II, div. I, tr. M. Mller, 2nd ed., pp. 50-1), to be distinguished from (1) Transcendental Aesthetic, which studies the a priori forms of sensation, and (2) Transc. Dialectic, which attempts to criticize the illusory and falsifying arguments based on a priori principles. — V.J.B.