This paper introduces Transcendental Relational Realism (TRR) as a philosophical framework for analyzing epistemic relations between heterogeneous cognitive architectures. It argues that reality remains ontologically independent of the agents that attempt to know it,while epistemic access to that reality is always partial and may be expanded through relations between different forms of cognition. TRR combines ontological realism with relational epistemology while distinguishing itself from relational ontology, since it does not treat relations as constitutive of reality itself. Its central claim is that epistemically productivecross-architectural relations may arise where different cognitive systems converge on sufficiently similar structural responses to shared physical and informational constraints. The paper further argues that existing approaches such as extended cognition, distributed cognition, and hybrid intelligence do not fully explain the conditions under which heterogeneous cognitive systems may enter mutually informative relations.TRR is proposed as a conceptual framework for addressing this problem.Keywords:Transcendental Relational Realism; relational epistemology; ontological realism; heterogeneous cognitive architectures; cross-architectural cognitio
Piotr Świder (Wed,) studied this question.