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2018
Transcendental arguments seek to answer scepticism by showing that the things doubted by a sceptic are in fact preconditions for the scepticism to make sense. Hence the scepticism is either meaningless or false. A transcendental argument works by finding the preconditions of meaningful thought or judgment.
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Transcendental arguments seek to answer scepticism by showing that the things doubted by a sceptic are in fact preconditions for the scepticism to make sense. Hence the scepticism is either meaningless or false. A transcendental argument works by finding the preconditions of meaningful thought or judgment.
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2000
Abstract Fourteen new essays by a distinguished team of authors offer a broad and stimulating re-examination of transcendental arguments. This is the philosophical method of arguing that what is doubted or denied by the opponent must be the case, as a condition for the possibility of experience, language, or thought.
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Abstract Fourteen new essays by a distinguished team of authors offer a broad and stimulating re-examination of transcendental arguments. This is the philosophical method of arguing that what is doubted or denied by the opponent must be the case, as a condition for the possibility of experience, language, or thought.
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The Goal of Transcendental Arguments
2000Abstract The earliest use of the phrase ‘transcendental argument’ that I am familiar with is by J. L. Austin in a I939 Joint Session symposium on ‘Are There A Priori Concepts?’ (I96I: I-22).I As far as I know, Kant never used the corresponding German expression, although he spoke of many different things as ‘transcendental’, including ...
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Varieties of the transcendental : transcendental arguments and transcendental description [PDF]
, 2017 Transcendental claims offer necessary, universal, and a priori conditions for the possibility of various phenomena (cognition, perception, language etc.). The current discussion in epistemology takes transcendental arguments, specifically, to serve as refutations of skepticism.
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Analytic Transcendental Arguments
1979Someone who thinks that his own inner states are the basis for all his other knowledge and beliefs may wonder how anything can be securely built on this foundation. He need not actually doubt that his own edifice is securely founded, though he may pretend to have doubts about this in order to consider how they could be resolved if they did occur.
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Gibbard’s Transcendental Arguments
The Journal of Value Inquiry, 2010In Thinking How to Live, Allan Gibbard attempts to derive commitments binding on all agents from the logic of planning. In particular, he argues that every agent is committed to the claim that what one ought to do supervenes on prosaic fact. In doing so, he thinks he vindicates much of what moral realists say while giving a more adequate expressivist ...
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Transcendental Arguments: Objections
2000Abstract While the ‘official’ history of transcendental arguments goes back to Kant (though a case can be made for putting much earlier anti sceptical strategies in this form), there was little critical discussion of them as such, independently of general considerations of Kant’s epistemology and metaphysics as a whole, until Strawson ...
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Induction and Transcendental Argument
2000Abstract Kant intended his transcendental arguments to be arguments against the sceptic. They are supposed to work by showing that there is an incoherence in the sceptical position: the fact that there is experience, or knowledge, renders that position untenable. But there has been much disagreement over how much transcendental arguments-
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Transcendental Method And Transcendental Arguments
International Philosophical Quarterly, 1987openaire +1 more source