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Kant’s Transcendental Arguments

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[Revised entry by Derk Pereboom on October 22, 2026.
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Among Immanuel Kant's (1724 - 1804) most influential contributions to philosophy is his development of the transcendental argument. In Kant's conception, an argument of this kind begins with a compelling premise about our thought, experience, or knowledge, and then reasons to a conclusion that is a substantive and unobvious presupposition and necessary condition of this premise. The crucial steps in this

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