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Transcendental Idealism

Immanuel Kant's epistemological philosophical system which holds that space and time are not properties of independent real things in themselves, but are rather a priori intuitions possessed by our minds, and everything we perceive is subject to this space and time intuition. However, as opposed to George Berkeley's subjective idealism which holds that nothing exists outside the mind, Kant's transcendental idealism accepts the existence of external objects independent of our mind but distinguishes between noumena (things-in-themselves as they actually are) and phenomena (things as we perceive them), we can only Intuit the phenomena (or the appearance of the object) from the noumena (which we can never directly perceive). Thus Kant acknowledges that while we can never know the noumena, the phenomena sufficiently conform to our concepts of them and that in order to make sense of the empirical world, we must presuppose transcendentally a consciousness that unites intuitions under concepts.

Transcendental Idealism has had important influence on the development of philosophy in general and German Idealism in particular

by Stalin's Pipe August 8, 2021


ironic idealism

The outer limit of postmodernism. Idealism viewed ironically. Does not cover ironic nihilism which is a form of ironic idealism but falls OUTSIDE of the limits of postmodernism. Consistent with postmodernism's idyllic denialism or its perception of idealism as unreachable or unattainable except through irony.

Hollywood films 1990-2010 contain themes of ironic idealism or idealism viewed ironically.

by sandrashine July 15, 2017


Ideal gas

A fart which does not smell.

โ€œI really had to fart during that Thermodynamics lecture, but luckily it was an Ideal Gas.โ€

by EindbaasJohn November 26, 2018

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Passive idealism

Allowing damage or harm to your persons or property without retaliation with the belief that doing nothing about it makes you safer.

My car got messed up in your driveway and you wont let me see the camara footage cuz you think I'll disrupt your passive idealism? Damn right I will.

by Fn'awesome October 16, 2021


Kantian idealism

The theory that science is a subset of religion and predicts that religion will eventually subsume science.

Predicted the onset of postmodernism.

Kantian idealism predicts that religion will absorb science to create science-religion.

by metawave April 14, 2019


ideal dick

Perfectly sized dick. Almost too much to handle, but not quite. Combination between boyfriend dick and vacation dick

Girl 1 : I saw you started dating galen , how's that going?
Girl 2: pretty well! We had sex last night... I almost couldn't handle it. Definitely an ideal dick.

by Rizzic April 18, 2016


German idealism

A paradigm of society which is high-truth, high-trust.

Assumes that scientific realism is a segue to idealism.

German idealism assumes scientific realism in which language is treated as a medium of truth.

by tomorrowtomorrow December 9, 2018