#kant

• Amphiboly — A syntactic or semantic ambiguity of a sentence or statement that allows for two or more completely different logical interpretations, often due to faulty word order or lack of structural punctuation. In Kantian philosophy, the term describes an error of judgment by which a concept of pure reflection is confused with an object of empirical sensory experience.
• Antinomic — Containing an antinomy or relating to an antinomy; expressing a profound and seemingly insoluble contradiction between two laws, principles, theses, or conclusions, even though each of them is considered valid, logically demonstrable, or historically and legally justified.
• Antinomy — An insoluble contradiction between two laws, two legal provisions, or two philosophical theses that are equally logical, rational, and seemingly demonstrable; in the Kantian system, it represents the inevitable conflict into which pure reason enters with itself when trying to conceive the infinite or the absolute through the phenomenal world.
• Apperception — A superior and conscious psychological process through which a current perception is interpreted, clarified, and assimilated into the mind via the background of knowledge, memories, and experiences previously accumulated by the individual. Unlike simple perception, it implies voluntary attention, self-reflection, and structural localization within the personal conceptual framework.
• Apodictic — Possessing a character of absolute necessity, being self-evident and completely incontestable; excluding any possibility of doubt or contradiction. In Aristotelian and Kantian logic, the term describes a proposition or judgment expressing a universally demonstrable truth, as opposed to problematic or assertoric judgments.
• A priori — A philosophical and logical term borrowed from Latin (a priori), used to denote knowledge, judgment, or reasoning that is independent of any prior sensory experience, based exclusively on pure reason; also, in everyday language, it describes a conviction formulated dogmatically, beforehand, without prior verification of concrete facts or reality.
• Aprioric — Based on arguments or principles established independently of empirical experience; pertaining to or derived from a priori knowledge. In everyday language, it describes a statement, conception, or judgment made beforehand, in a preconceived manner, without direct verification of reality or objective facts.
• Apriorism — A philosophical doctrine or epistemological orientation (specifically prominent in German idealism and Cartesianism) which asserts that the foundational elements of human knowledge are innate or independent of sensory experience, being structured exclusively by pure reason prior to any empirical research.
• Apriorist — A person who adheres to the principles of apriorism or who claims that the foundational elements of knowledge are independent of sensory experience. As an adjective, it describes a philosophical system, reasoning, or intellectual attitude based exclusively on preset mental frameworks and purely deductive speculations, lacking empirical grounding.
• Apriority — The quality, trait, or state of being a priori; the absolute independence of mental frameworks, concepts, or logical categories from any form of sensory or empirical experience. In classical gnoseology, it defines the logical and structural priority of pure reason in organizing knowledge.
• Architectonic — Belonging to architecture, relating to the constructive rules, structure, or artistic composition of a building or monument; structural, tectonic. In philosophy (especially with Immanuel Kant), the term (as a feminine noun: arhitectonica) denotes the art or method of building coherent scientific systems, unifying disparate knowledge under a single guiding idea to form a logical, organized, and harmonious whole.
• Assertoric — Asserting or denying something as a real, certain, and axiomatic fact; relating to a value judgment or a proposition that simply states an existing state of affairs, without presenting it as necessary or purely axiomatic (as opposed to apodictic or problematic). In a structural sense, it describes the logical modality through which the truth of an utterance is linked strictly to observable empirical reality.
• Aufklärung — A German term designating the Age of Enlightenment, an ideological, philosophical, and cultural movement of the 18th century characterized by absolute trust in human reason. In a strict philosophical context, it refers to the German Enlightenment, prominently represented by Immanuel Kant.