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.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various

In the former part of our transcendental logic, we defined the understanding to be the faculty of rules; reason may be distinguished from understanding as the faculty of principles.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

But transcendental logic must be divided into transcendental analytic and transcendental dialectic.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

On the other hand, the duty of transcendental logic is to reduce to conceptions, not representations, but the pure synthesis of representations.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

There cannot, therefore, exist any canon for the speculative exercise of this faculty—for its speculative exercise is entirely dialectical; and, consequently, transcendental logic, in this respect, is merely a discipline, and not a canon.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow