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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Coming before a critical state or phase.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Previous to the development of Kant's critical philosophy and to the publication of his “Critique of the Pure Reason.”
- In pathology, noting the time prior to the occurrence of a crisis.
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- adjective Before a
critical stage
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Examples
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Readers of the philosophical works of Immanuel Kant are aware of the basic distinction between his critical and precritical periods.
René Descartes Hatfield, Gary 2008
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Herder's general philosophical program and debts to the precritical Kant:
Johann Gottfried von Herder Forster, Michael 2007
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Here he is again indebted to the precritical Kant, but he also goes somewhat further beyond him.
Johann Gottfried von Herder Forster, Michael 2007
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But there are also philosophically deeper motives: (2) He takes over from the precritical Kant an idea (inspired by ancient skepticism) that the best way for the philosopher to pursue the truth is by setting contrary views on a subject into opposition with one another in order to advance towards, and hopefully attain, the truth through their mutual testing and modification.
Johann Gottfried von Herder Forster, Michael 2007
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They may of course manifest themselves in a practically infinite number of permutations, and the precritical reader may relish such psychological fiction as that of Dostoevsky or Flaubert for the subtlety and acuteness with which those authors portray the presumably universal and static varieties of affective experience.
PKD and Style 2006
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They may of course manifest themselves in a practically infinite number of permutations, and the precritical reader may relish such psychological fiction as that of Dostoevsky or Flaubert for the subtlety and acuteness with which those authors portray the presumably universal and static varieties of affective experience.
Archive 2006-07-01 2006
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In his precritical period he had still been intent upon settling the “distinctness of the fundamental principles of natural theology and morals” by placing teleology at the center of his argu - ment.
THEODICY LEROY E. LOEMKER 1968
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Whether he bought the picture in his precritical days, keeping it as a warning and imposing it upon his followers as a hoax -- this I can merely conjecture.
The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather
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They _were_ philosophers -- "spectators of all time and all existence"; but they were precritical or dogmatic philosophers, to whom it had not occurred to define the requirements of philosophy.
The Approach to Philosophy Ralph Barton Perry 1916
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In contrast, our quest allows us-and requires us-to put these precritical presuppositions aside and approach Jesus differently.
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