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Transcendental proof In Kant’s PhilosophyProof by showing that what is proved is a necessary condition without which human experience would be impossible and therefore valid of all phenomena. — A.C.E. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Transcendental Philosophy Kant’s name for his proposed a priori science of pure science (“pure reason”) which would include both a detailed analysis of its fundamental concepts and a complete list of all derivative notions. Such a study would go beyond the purpose and scope of his Critique of Pure Reason. Name given to Kant’s philosophy. … Continue reading “Transcendental Philosophy”

Transcendental Object (Kant, Ger. transzendentale Objekt) The pure rational ‘x’ which Kant defines as the general form of object or the object as such. It is not a particular concrete object, but the ideal objective correlate of pure consciousness as such. It is the object which the mind seeks to know in each empirical cognition. … Continue reading “Transcendental Object”

Transcendental method (In Kant) The analysis of the conditions (a priori forms of intuition, categories of the understanding, ideals of reason) that make possible human experience and knowledge. See Kantianism. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Transcendental Illusion (Kant Ger. transzendentaler Schein) An illusion resulting from the tendency of the mmd to accept the a priori forms of reason, valid only in experience, as constituting the nature of ultimate reality. Thus we are led, according to Kant, to think Ideas, such as God, World, and Soul, though we cannot know them. … Continue reading “Transcendental Illusion”

Transcendental idealism See Idealism. — A.C.E. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

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 … Continue reading “Transcendental analytic”

Transcendental (Ger. transzendental) In Kant’s PhilosophyAdjective applied to the condition of experience or anything relating thereto. Thus transcendental knowledge is possible while transcendent knowledge is not. In the Dialectic, however, the term transcendental is often used where one would expect transcendent. — A.C.E. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Transcendent Reference The reference of a mental state to something beyond itself. See Reference. — L.W. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Transcendent, or Transcendental (from trianscendere, to go beyond), words employed by various schoolmen, particularly Duns Scotus, to describe the conceptions that, by their universality, rise above or transcend the ten Aristotelian categories. Thus, according to Scotus, Ens, or Being, because it is predicable of substance and accident alike, of God as well as of the … Continue reading “Transcendent, or Transcendental”