transcendental ego

noun

(in Kantian epistemology) that part of the self that is the subject and never the object.

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The transcendental ego seems nowadays in rationalist quarters to stand for everything, in empiricist quarters for almost nothing.

Essays in Radical Empiricism
William James

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