Transcendental Apriori
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Transcendental Apriori
At first the term transcendental a priori will be divided into two terms, transcendental and a priori. Transcendental is a term that combines three different types of meaning. The first type of meaning is that one in the physical world, the second one in the subjective world and the third one in the social world.
Concerning the content of the meaning of transcendental Immanuel Kant have had an importance influence. He gives the following description: ‘all the knowledge that does not concern with the objects itself, but instead with our knowledge about these objects, I refer to as transcendental.’ Transcendental thus has to do with epistemological belief in meta-narratives, which are the basis to any other knowledge (Zierhofer, 2002, p. 1361). A priori is a form of knowledge or justification that is independent of experience. For example the knowledge that one that is married is not a bachelor. If you know that person A is married you do not to have to go out and experience or analyze anything to be able to conclude that person A is not a bachelor. A priori refers also to a sort of ‘inner-experience’. The opposite of a priori is a posteriori, a so called ‘outer-experience’. Whereas a priori refers to temporally ´before`, a posteriori hints at a temporal ´after`.
Together than transcendental a priori refers to knowledge beyond the present perception and experience. As an example of transcendental a priori thinking we could take Religious or as well Marxist assumptions, which form a higher level frame from which to understand the world.
References
Martin,D. Kant’s trancendental idealism Consulted: 17 October 2010 http://www.london-oratory.org/philosophy/philosophies/epistemology/trancendental/body_trancendental.html
Glen Friesen, J. Linked Glossary of Terms, 2009 Consulted: 19 October 2010 http://www.members.shaw.ca/jgfriesen/Definitions/apriori.html
Zierhofer, W. (2002). Speech acts and space(s): Language pragmatics and the discursive constitution of the social. Environment and Planning A, 34, 1355-1372.
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