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idea of pure reason
[ ahy-dee-uh uhv pyoor ree-zuhn ]
noun
, Kantianism.
- any of the three undemonstrable entities (a personal soul, a cosmos, and a supreme being ) implicit in the fact of a subject and an object of knowledge, and in the need for some principle uniting them. Compare ideal of pure reason.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of idea of pure reason1
First recorded in 1810–20
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