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

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transcendental logic

Understanding and judgement accordingly possess in transcendental logic a canon of objectively valid, and therefore true exercise, and are comprehended in the analytical department of that logic.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

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

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

It is no transcendental logic that they teach; and they give no sign of any deliberate morality seated in the world.

From Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion by George Santayana

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

From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard

But transcendental logic is the science of the principles of pure thought.

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