transcendental logic

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noun

1. (in Kantian epistemology) the study of the mind with reference to its perceptions of external objects and to the objective truth of such perceptions.

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Etymology

Origin of transcendental logic

First recorded in 1790–1800

Example Sentences

It is quite possible, therefore, that knowledge should be what we call transcendent and yet not involve us in a transcendental logic.

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As against a purely formal logic, if such a thing were possible, Dewey's criticism would be valid, but the transcendental logic of his time was not formal in this sense.

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In opposition to this formal, and, as he calls it, subjective standpoint in logic, Dewey stands for the transcendental logic, which supposes that there is some kind of vital connection between thought and fact; "that thinking, in short, is nothing but the fact in its process of translation from brute impression to lucent meaning."

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He maintains that the disrespect into which the transcendental logic had fallen, was due to the fact that the popular comprehension of the transcendental movement had been arrested at Kant, and had never gone on to Hegel.

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Remaining at the standpoint of Kant, therefore, the critic of the transcendental logic has much to complain of.

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