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

But transcendental logic considers also the worth or content of this logical affirmation—an affirmation by means of a merely negative predicate, and inquires how much the sum total of our cognition gains by this affirmation.

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

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

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

According to this view, pragmatism would seem to be a revised version of the transcendental logic, leaving logic still transcendental, that is, still concerned with the evolution of the categories.

From Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion by Santayana, George

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

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 Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow