transcendental aesthetic

noun

1. (in Kantian epistemology) the study of space and time as the a priori forms of perception.

Example Sentences

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.

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He calls it Transcendental Aesthetic, and refuses to allow the term to be used for the Critique of Taste, which could never become a science.

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Art being unknown to him in its essential nature, he invents the functions of space and time and terms this transcendental aesthetic; he develops the theory of the imaginative beautifying of the intellectual concept by genius; he is finally forced to admit a mysterious power of feeling, intermediate between the theoretic and the practical activity.

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Characterizing or qualifying imagination, that is, aesthetic activity, should therefore take the place occupied by the study of space and time in the Critique of Pure Reason, and constitute the true Transcendental Aesthetic, prologue to Logic.

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The supreme principle of the possibility of all intuition in relation to sensibility was, according to our transcendental aesthetic, that all the manifold in intuition be subject to the formal conditions of space and time.

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