transcendental realism, n.All

Transcendental realism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a deception that, if we gave in to it, would leave us neither nature nor freedom.

Transcendental realism (n.) turns ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠everything into mere illusion by making space and time properties of things in themselves — so one cannot blame good Berkeley for demoting bodies.

Transcendental realism (n.) later ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠plays the empirical idealist: having wrongly made objects of sense into things in themselves, the realist finds his sense-representations can never certify them.

Transcendental realism (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠born of one apparently harmless step: Descartes turned the ego into a thinking substance, a little soul in the world, and made it the starting point for causal inferences to everything else.