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Grenzbegriff Philos.|ˈgrɛntsbəgrɪf|
[G., f. grenze limit, boundary + begriff concept.]
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.
[1787Kant Kritik der reinen Vernunft (ed. 2) 310 Der Begriff eines Noumenon ist also bloss ein Grenzbegriff.] 1893P. 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. 1896W. James Will to Believe (1897) 16 Objective evidence is never triumphantly there; it is a mere aspiration or Grenzbegriff, marking the infinitely remote ideal of our thinking life. 1908― Meaning of Truth (1909) xii. 239 The notion of an absolute reality inevitably arises as a grenzbegriff. 1941Mind L. 309 Kant's ‘thing in itself’, understood either as a transcendent real or as a Grenzbegriff, could be only a prolific source of error. |