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transcendental dialectic

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noun

Kantianism.
  1. (in transcendental logic) the study of the fallacious attribution of objective reality to the perceptions by the mind of external objects.


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But transcendental logic must be divided into transcendental analytic and transcendental dialectic.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

And now we can clearly perceive the result of our transcendental dialectic, and the proper aim of the ideas of pure reason—which become dialectical solely from misunderstanding and inconsiderateness.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

When logic is used to judge not analytically, but to judge synthetically of objects in general, it is called transcendental dialectic, which serves as a protection against sophistical fallacy.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

The solution of these problems is our task in transcendental dialectic, which we are about to expose even at its source, that lies deep in human reason.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

Now our duty in the transcendental dialectic is as follows.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

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