transcendental idealism

British  

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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Example Sentences

But Schelling's "system of transcendental idealism" was the first great philosophical affirmation of Romanticism and of conscious Neo-platonism reborn in Aesthetic.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto

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

Time, space, kind, number, serial order, cause, consciousness, are hard things not to objectify—even transcendental idealism leaves them standing as ‘empirically real.’

From Essays in Radical Empiricism 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

But transcendental idealism is quite as unfriendly to active principles called souls as physiological psychology is, Kant having, as it thinks, definitively demolished them.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William