transcendental idealism

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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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transcendental idealism

Six years later the project was abandoned and is now remembered as an example of the futility of trying to leaven a world of realism by means of an atom of transcendental idealism.

From The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners by Orth, Samuel Peter

By the more radical wing of religious philosophy I mean the so- called transcendental idealism of the Anglo-Hegelian school, the philosophy of such men as Green, the Cairds, Bosanquet, and Royce.

From Pragmatism by James, William

Since this formula also expresses the main contention of transcendental idealism, it needs abundant explication to make it unambiguous.

From Meaning of Truth by James, William

He develops this as the third part of his system of transcendental idealism following theoretic and practical philosophy.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

In his second article, on "Psychology as Philosophic Method," Dewey proposes to show that his standpoint is practically identical with that of transcendental idealism.

From John Dewey's logical theory by Howard, Delton Thomas