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    Transcendental arguments have a distinctively Kantian character because Kant made accounting for metaphysical knowledge of transcendental claims the focus of his critical project.

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    • 1.Transcendental claims concern metaphysical knowledge of how things must be.
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    • 2.Kant's critical project was specifically designed to account for how such metaphysical knowledge is possible.
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    • 3.Transcendental idealism is Kant's proposed answer to how knowledge of this sort is possible.
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    6. It is then partly because of the apparently rather special nature of these transcendental claims, that the suspicion arises that there will then turn out to be something distinctively Kantian about such arguments; for Kant made it the focus of his critical project to account for metaphysical knowledge of this sort, where transcendental idealism is then supposed to provide the answer to how such knowledge is possible. The idea, roughly speaking, is that it is too much for us to be able to know
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