transcendental logic

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of transcendental logic¹

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

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Seven years before, Dewey had been an ardent champion of the transcendental logic, on the ground that it was progressive, and he contrasted it most favorably with the formal logics which treat thought as a self-contained process.

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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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