If the transcendental conditions of experience are not themselves empirical objects, then positing an ineliminable empirical 'unthought' does not infect the transcendental standpoint Foucault attributes to modern philosophy.
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Something that cannot be removed, gotten rid of, or done away with—it's permanent or unavoidable.
infect(argumentation)
To contaminate or compromise the validity of something—here, to undermine or damage the philosophical position being defended.
modern philosophy(history of philosophy)
Philosophical thinking from roughly the 1600s onward, which began with thinkers questioning how we know anything and what the mind's role is in knowledge.
positing(Fichtean model of self-consciousness)
The act by which the I establishes or asserts being — both its own being and, through limitation, the being of the non-I
the unthought(philosophy of mind/epistemology)
Aspects of reality or experience that exist but cannot be fully known or brought into conscious thought.
Factors (here, the unknowable subject = x and object = x) that fall outside the system of a priori judgements yet constitute the conditions of possibility for that system of experience
A philosophical perspective that focuses on the fundamental structures that make knowledge and experience possible, rather than just studying individual objects.