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Single Idea 21441

[filed under theme 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism ]

Full Idea

The word 'transcendental' does not mean something that goes beyond all experience, but something which, though it precedes (a priori) all experience, is destined only to make knowledge by experience possible.

Gist of Idea

'Transcendental' is not beyond experience, but a prerequisite of experience

Source

Immanuel Kant (Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic [1781], 373 n)

Book Ref

Kant,Immanuel: 'Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic', ed/tr. Lucas,Peter G. [Manchester UP 1971], p.144

A Reaction

One of two explanations by Kant of 'transcendental', picked out by Sebastian Gardner. I think the word 'prerequisite' covers the idea nicely, using a normal English word. Or am I missing something?

Related Idea

Idea 21442 'Transcendental' cognition concerns what can be known a priori of its mode [Kant]

The 23 ideas with the same theme [reality exists with our cognitive structure]:

22012 Kant says things-in-themselves cause sensations, but then makes causation transcendental! [Henry of Ghent, by Pinkard]
6909 In Kantian idealism, objects fit understanding, not vice versa [Kant, by Feuerbach]
6910 Kant's idealism is a limited idealism based on the viewpoint of empiricism [Kant, by Feuerbach]
21440 For Kant experience is either structured like reality, or generates reality's structure [Kant, by Gardner]
22006 The concepts that make judgeable experiences possible are created spontaneously [Kant, by Pinkard]
21442 'Transcendental' cognition concerns what can be known a priori of its mode [Kant]
5568 We cannot know things in themselves, but are confined to appearances [Kant]
5581 We have proved that bodies are appearances of the outer senses, not things in themselves [Kant]
21956 Everything we intuit is merely a representation, with no external existence (Transcendental Idealism) [Kant]
16923 I admit there are bodies outside us [Kant]
21441 'Transcendental' is not beyond experience, but a prerequisite of experience [Kant]
22068 Poetry is transcendental when it connects the ideal to the real [Schlegel,F]
22015 The thing-in-itself is an empty dream [Fichte, by Pinkard]
22064 Fichte's logic is much too narrow, and doesn't deduce ethics, art, society or life [Schlegel,F on Fichte]
23241 I am myself, but not the external object; so I only sense myself, and not the object [Fichte]
21973 Fichte believed in things-in-themselves [Fichte, by Moore,AW]
21914 We can deduce experience from self-consciousness, without the thing-in-itself [Fichte]
21919 Object for a subject and representation are the same thing [Schopenhauer]
21913 Kant rightly separates appearance and thing-in-itself [Schopenhauer]
6908 Consciousness is absolute reality, and everything exists through consciousness [Feuerbach]
21958 Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW]
22049 Transcendental idealism aims to explain objectivity through subjectivity [Bowie]
19651 Unlike speculative idealism, transcendental idealism assumes the mind is embodied [Meillassoux]