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21957 | 'Transcendental' concerns how we know, rather than what we know [Kant] |
Full Idea: The word 'transcendental' signifies not a relation of our cognition to things, but only to the faculty of cognition. | |
From: Immanuel Kant (Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic [1781], 4:293), quoted by A.W. Moore - The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics 5.4 | |
A reaction: This is the annoying abduction of a word which is very useful in metaphysical contexts. |