Transendentaali

Transendentaali is a term originating from philosophy, particularly associated with Immanuel Kant. It refers to conditions that make experience possible. These are not empirical conditions, meaning they are not derived from sensory experience itself. Instead, they are a priori, meaning they are known prior to or independent of experience. For Kant, transcendental logic investigates the a priori conditions of our knowledge of objects. These transcendental conditions are the fundamental structures of the mind, such as the categories of understanding (like causality and substance) and the forms of intuition (space and time). Without these inherent mental frameworks, we would not be able to organize and comprehend the raw data of our senses into meaningful experience of objects in the world. Therefore, transcendental knowledge concerns the way in which our minds actively shape and constitute our experience, rather than simply passively receiving it. The term has also been used more broadly to denote anything that transcends the ordinary or empirical, though its philosophical meaning is more specific and technical.