Transcendental apperception

In philosophy, Kantian transcendental apperception is that which Immanuel Kant thought makes experience possible. It is where the self and the world come together.

Transcendental apperception is the uniting and building of coherent consciousness out of different elementary inner experiences (differing in both time and topic, but all belonging to self-consciousness). E.g. the experience of "passing of time" relies on this transcendental unity of apperception, according to Kant.

There are six steps to transcendental apperception:

The term was later adapted in psychology by Johann Friedrich Herbart, see Apperception.

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