IMMANENT PRINCIPLE

[A297/B353] Defined in the Dialectic as those principles of pure understanding which have only empirical employment; opposed to the misuse of the categories as having transcendental employment (i.e., beyond the limits of experience), and to the bogus notion of concepts with transcendent employment, i.e. which allegedly can be correctly employed outside the limits of possible experience. The "criticism" in the Dialectic seeks to disclose the illusion in transcendental and transcendent principles, to expose them as immanent principles with merely empirical employments.