transcendental idealism

noun

1. philosophy the Kantian doctrine that reality consists not of appearances, but of some other order of being whose existence can be inferred from the nature of human reason

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Singularly enough, Fichte accepted the Transcendental Idealism as an orthodox exposition of his own philosophy.

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Schelling's "Transcendental Idealism," with which Coleridge was afterwards most in sympathy, was not published till 1800.

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Transcendental idealism, as above stated, reveals a way out of the dilemma.

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What I said just now about the Absolute of transcendental idealism is a case in point.

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The Aupanishadas have thus advanced from the pantheism of the orthodox ritualists to a transcendental idealism.

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