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transcendental idealism
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transcendental idealism
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(Philosophy) Philosophy the Kantian doctrine that reality consists not of appearances, but of some other order of being whose existence can be inferred from the nature of human reason


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He warns Buddhist practitioners that the idea of a transcendental subject meditating on the evanescence of greed, hatred, and delusion has been rendered null and void by the discursive developments of the latter half of the 20th century, and suggests that modern Western Buddhism can--perhaps should--be seen as a completely different religion than what appeared in fifth century BCE.
He is talking about seemingly transcendental subjects but the language is so physical.
 
 
 
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