antitranscendentalism
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From anti- + transcendentalism.
Noun
[edit]antitranscendentalism (uncountable)
- (philosophy) A position that opposes transcendentalism.
- 1990, Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya, Anthropology and Historiography of Science, page 120:
- The positivist is driven to either "pure facts" or "pure formulas" by his antitranscendentalism of the dogmatic variety.
- 2019, Robert Sinclair, Science and Sensibilia by W. V. Quine: The 1980 Immanuel Kant Lectures:
- One hitch here is that this deflationary attitude and extreme anti-transcendentalism might appear to paint Quine's naturalism into a corner.