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| transcendental metaphysics |
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| metaphysical claims that cannot be justified by any reference to any possible experience |
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| spacio-temporal objects exist independently of perceivers but depend on categories or forms of intuition to be known |
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| after or as a result of experience |
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| completely prior to and separate from experience |
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| beyond experience, but necessary for experience to be possible |
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| a statement that is true by virtue of the meaning of its terms, and so the predicate is contained in the subject |
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| a statement that is true or false by virtue of the way the world is, and so the predicate is not contained in the subject |
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| the combination of an intuition with a concept in the form of a judgment |
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| the faculty that passively receives raw sense data |
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| the elements of experience that the intuitive faculty produces |
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| a rule of the understanding for the construction of experience, inherent in the nature of reason |
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| the determination in the understanding through a synthesis of intuitions and concepts that an object is empirically real |
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| a representation presented to our sensibility, but not yet known because not yet presented to our understanding through concepts |
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| the most general concepts that organize and make experience possible, inherent in the nature of understanding |
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| the faculty concerned with actively producing knowledge by means of concepts |
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| concepts that organize and make experience possible (categories) |
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| pure intuition of space and time |
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| form of sensibility conjoined with form of understanding making experience possible |
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| a product of human thought that we impose on the data of our experience |
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| the conformity to law of all objects of experience |
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| the totality of all objects of experience |
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| empirical judgments of subjective validity (opinions) |
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| empirical judgments of objective validity, i.e., necessarily true for everyone based on a pure concept of the understanding (facts) |
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| things in themselves; unknowable, independently existing reality |
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| things as they appear to an observer, i.e., objects in space & time that can be experienced |
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| the indirect knowledge of self that accompanies all perceptions, not a perception itself but a knowledge which accompanies all perceptions |
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| the representation of the apperception, i.e., of that to which all thinking stands in relation |
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| transcendental unity of apperception |
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| the requirement that experience must belong to a single consciousness |
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