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Transcendental metaphysics emerges with the insight most influentially represented by Kant, that the terms and categories of our ordinary experience of ourselves and the world, i.e., lithe the natural," are in principle inappropriate to our experience of the ultimate, except insofar as they are understood resolutely as symbolic or metaphorical, and hence are demythologized in a radical way. Whereas categorial metaphysics involves as essential to its thought form the concept of analogy, as distinct from myth-symbol, on the one hand, and existential-transcendental concepts, on the other, transcendental metaphysics denies the possibility of analogy as a distinct way of thinking and speaking about the ultimate. From its standpoint, putative analogies are, in reality, only symbols or metaphors.

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