Grenzbegriffn.
/ˈɡrɛntsbəɡrɪf/ Philosophy.
In Kantian philosophy, a concept which shows the limitation of sense-experience; a limiting concept (also limit-concept, limitative conception); also, loosely, a conception of an unattained ideal.
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Grenzbegriff1893
1787 I. Kant Kritik der reinen Vernunft (ed. 2) 310 Der Begriff eines Noumenon ist also bloss ein Grenzbegriff.]
1893 P. Carus Primer of Philos. 98 The straight line..must be taken as a Grenzbegriff, i.e., a conception which denotes the utmost limit to be reached by a certain operation.
1897 W. James Will to Believe 16 Objective evidence is never triumphantly there; it is a mere aspiration or Grenzbegriff, marking the infinitely remote ideal of our thinking life.
1908 W. James Meaning of Truth (1909) xii. 239 The notion of an absolute reality inevitably arises as a grenzbegriff.
1941 Mind 50 309 Kant's ‘thing in itself’, understood either as a transcendent real or as a Grenzbegriff, could be only a prolific source of error.
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