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The term “transcendental” in literature is employed to explain ideas that exceed the realm of mere sensory experience, serving as a bridge between empirical reality and the underlying a priori structures of thought. For instance, in Kant’s philosophical investigations, it labels the frameworks of pure thought—ranging from logic and aesthetics to dialectic—that set the conditions for human cognition and experience [1, 2, 3, 4]. This usage extends beyond metaphysics into ethical and political domains where reason’s foundational principles inform public life and moral order [5, 6]. Other thinkers harness the term to evoke a sense of aspiration toward ideals or states of being that lie beyond conventional understanding, imbuing their work with a quality of profound abstraction that challenges limits and invites deeper reflection [7, 8, 9].
  1. Idea of a Transcendental Logic I. Of Logic in General II.
    — from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
  2. FOURTH CONFLICT OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL IDEAS.
    — from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
  3. In the transcendental sphere of reason, on the other hand, the term opinion is too weak, while the word knowledge is too strong.
    — from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
  4. For it is one part of the duty of transcendental philosophy to establish the possibility of mathematics itself.
    — from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
  5. [p. 184] APPENDIX II CONCERNING THE HARMONY OF POLITICS WITH MORALS ACCORDING TO THE TRANSCENDENTAL IDEA OF PUBLIC
    — from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant
  6. ACCORDING TO THE TRANSCENDENTAL IDEA OF PUBLIC RIGHT
    — from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant
  7. These words adequately express the compatibility of empirical reality and transcendental ideality.
    — from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
  8. He did not lack the wish to be transcendental.
    — from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
  9. The transcendental wine removed beyond my reach.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

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