antitranscendentalism

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English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ transcendentalism.

Noun

antitranscendentalism (uncountable)

  1. (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.