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Kant gives the term "transcendental" a new, distinctively different meaning when he calls all knowledge "transcendental" insofar as it has to do, not with objects, but with our way of knowing objects, to the extent that such knowledge is possible a priori. Thus "transcendental" does not designate something that goes beyond experience—for experience—for that, Kant simply uses "transcendent"[FG1] —but —but rather something prior to experience that nonetheless has no purpose other than to make knowledge based on experience possible. Accordingly, the contrasting term to "transcendental," as he uses it, is "empirical." 

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