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

The transcendental idealism, the distinction between phenomena and noumena, and the limitation of knowledge to phenomena, all receive significant confirmation from the Antithetic.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

As this view is variously expressed by different writers, we find in it traces of Christian mysticism, of transcendental idealism, of vedantism, and of the modern psychology of the subliminal self.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James

But Kant himself called his philosophy "transcendental idealism," by no means because he deals therein with moral ideals, but on quite other grounds, as Starcke will remember.

From Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy by Austin Lewis

If we permit ourselves to be deceived by the illusion of transcendental idealism, we shall find that neither nature nor freedom exists.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

Hence also their protests against the bloodless abstractions of the Nazarene school of painting and to transcendental idealism in art and literature.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various