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transcendental egos

transcendental egos is the plural of transcendental ego.

Meaning of transcendental ego

Noun

transcendental ego (plural transcendental egos)

  1. The conscious self which is the unifying subject of a person's experiences and which cannot itself be experienced as an object, understood by Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) as knowable only by inference, and understood by Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) as pure consciousness.
    • If, however, the self be taken to mean, not an object existing among other objects, but the subject logically implied in all knowledge, the "Transcendental Ego" which we never can know as an object, and which therefore we never can "get behind," that may be allowed to be the ultimate reality.1892, David G. Ritchie, “What is Reality?”, in The Philosophical Review, volume 1, number 3, page 280

Noun capitalized: transcendental Egos

transcendental Egos

  1. (plural) plural of transcendental Ego

Questions about transcendental egos

What is transcendental egos the plural of?
Transcendental egos is the plural of transcendental ego.
What part of speech is transcendental egos?
Transcendental egos is a noun.

Words near transcendental egos in the dictionary

  1. transcendent
  2. transcendental
  3. transcendental critique
  4. transcendental critiques
  5. transcendental ego
  6. transcendental egos
  7. transcendental function
  8. transcendental functions
  9. transcendental idealism
  10. transcendental idealisms
  11. transcendental materialism

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