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- adjective Alternative spelling of
Kantian . - noun Alternative spelling of
Kantian .
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Examples
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I still recollect his 'object' and 'subject,' terms of continual recurrence in the Kantean province; and how he sang and snuffled them into 'om-m-ject' and 'sum-m-mject,' with a kind of solemn shake or quaver as he rolled along.
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I could tell a number of amusing tales of this Queen of Bohemia, but Space, the Kantean god, forbids me more.
Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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Kantean doctrine, a distinction or disgrace it has ever since continued to deserve.
The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works Thomas Carlyle 1838
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These are the general errors of Kantean criticism; in the present works, they are by no means of the worst or most pervading kind; and there is a fundamental merit which does more than counterbalance them.
The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Goethe alone seemed altogether to retain his wonted composure; he was clear for allowing the Kantean scheme to 'have its day, as all things have.'
The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Herder, then a clergyman of Weimar, seems never to have comprehended what he fought against so keenly: he denounced and condemned the Kantean metaphysics, because he found them heterodox.
The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works Thomas Carlyle 1838
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We of England may reject this Kantean system, perhaps with reason; but it ought to be on other grounds than are yet before us.
The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works Thomas Carlyle 1838
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The only department to which he attached himself with his ordinary zeal was that which relates to the principles of the imitative arts, with their moral influences, and which in the Kantean nomenclature has been designated by the term
The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Man as an intellectual Being; -- including the ancient metaphysics, the system of Locke and Hartley -- of the Scotch philosophers -- and the new Kantean system: -- 3.
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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"TSP" talks about the history of skepticism, has a wealth of nefarious anti-reason quotes, and a lengthy dialogue section between a "naive" student and a befuddled Humean/Kantean professor.
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