Sentence examples for formal idealism from inspiring English sources
Kant called his position "transcendental" and "critical" idealism, and it has also been called "formal" idealism.
This might seem to be a natural development, since the Metaphysical Foundations was non-committal on the point, but what is surprising is that Kant thinks that the ether can be established a priori (e.g., 21 222), which might seem to conflict with Kant's project in the Critique of Pure Reason (or with his description of his position as "formal idealism," 4 337).
Kant's claim in the Prolegomena is that his position should be called "formal" or "critical" idealism rather than "material" idealism because it merely identifies space and time with our forms of intuition but does not otherwise deny the reality of the objects in space and time.
He opposed this tendency toward transcendental idealism in Formal and Transcendental Logic but refused to reject, completely, phenomenology (Obras, 5: 545).
In doing this, the faculty does not violate any of the standards Kant sets out within Transcendental Idealism, for reason is merely applying the formal principle of complete determination to all possible predicates and constructing an idea (or more precisely, an ideal) thereby.
In a news conference high on idealism and rhetoric and light on details, a formal business partnership between the National Basketball Association and the National Collegiate Athletic Association was announced Monday to improve the dysfunctional youth basketball system.
Idealism in sense (1) may be called "metaphysical" or "ontological idealism", while idealism in sense (2) may be called "formal" or "epistemological idealism".
Consequent upon such influences was a change, inimical to idealism, in the whole style of doing philosophy, a change characterized by the development of formal logic and the new respect paid to the deliverances of common sense and of ordinary language.
