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FWEEEEEEET!  Name Change!

::tries to get everyone to run in circles because it’d be funny::

Yup, this old horse was due a name-change…I like name-changes, especially when something suddenly strikes me as appropriate, or more fitting, and this one did.

Transcendental Logic is a term from Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, which you can go ahead and look at me funny for enjoying; it is a bit like saying you’re a fan of the Finnish phone book.  But check out what it means:  The principles of pure thought.

Pure, as in Pure Doxyk if you’re feeling that way, the principles of Pure’s thoughts.  I giggled so hard I almost dropped my homework.

(I would bet that part of the coolness is the really odd translation of CPR I’m reading this time — the translators obviously tried very hard to make some small sentences in there, which Kant just doesn’t contain — you’re talking heavy-dirty epistemology written in 18th-century German by a kick-ass professor who was, he admitted, working too fast and too hard to really make much effort to make it readable…there’s just no way to translate this into modern English without writing insanely long sentences or sacrificing some content.  Either way you tend to short some wiring in the reader’s brain.  Me, personally, I like to burn some wiring now and then, so whatever; points to this translation for the name-change, but I think the long-sentence translations I’ve read were more elegant.)

So, there, your insanely obscure Chinese-fire-drill of the day.  FWEEEEET!  …And break.