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transcendental pragmatics  

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  • This entry introduces Karl-Otto Apel's philosophical thought, which has been of interest to the philosophy of the social sciences. It explains the central feature of Apel's theory of the community of communication, and the nature of pragmatic transcendental conditions (hence a priori) necessary for meaningful discourse, and ends by indicating its implications also for ethics. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Transcendental Pragmatics]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-SMZPDSKM-L

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