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The concept of Transcendental Object either refers, in the framework of the Critic of Pure Reason, to the cause or foundation of external phenomena, or, on the contrary, to the concept of an object in general as it is thought by the conscience so as to guarantee the objective validity of its representations. In this paper, I shall attempt to show that--contrary to what has been suggested by several interpreters--the ambiguity involved in the Kantian use of this concept is not the result of a terminological carelessness, but that it is founded on certain principles of Critical Idealism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]