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transcendental analytic
noun
(in transcendental logic) the study of the means by which the mind categorizes data from the sensory manifold.
Example Sentences
The merit of Hegel is to have indicated and to a large extent displayed the filiation and mutual limitation of our forms of thought; to have arranged them in the order of their comparative capacity to give a satisfactory expression to truth in the totality of its relations; and to have broken down the partition which in Kant separated the formal logic from the transcendental analytic, as well as the general disruption between logic and metaphysic.
Hence arises the distinction between the Transcendental Aesthetic and the Transcendental Analytic, the former dealing with the a priori judgements of mathematics, which relate to the sensibility, and the latter dealing with the a priori principles of physics, which originate in the understanding.
But transcendental logic must be divided into transcendental analytic and transcendental dialectic.
That part of transcendental logic, then, which treats of the elements of pure cognition of the understanding, and of the principles without which no object at all can be thought, is transcendental analytic, and at the same time a logic of truth.
Transcendental analytic is the dissection of the whole of our a priori knowledge into the elements of the pure cognition of the understanding.
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