Terminology Tuesday: Transcendental argument
An argument that takes some phenomenon as undeniable and makes claims about what must be true a priori for this to be the case. A classical example is Immanuel Kant’s transcendental argument, in which he took the validity of scientific knowledge as given and argued that science is possible only if we assume that such knowledge is grounded in the a priori forms of intuition provided by the human mind (space and time) and in the a priori categories provided by the human understanding, such as causality and substance.
Evans, C. Stephen, Pocket Dictionary of Apologetics & Philosophy of Religion (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2002).