Transcendental Definition

trănsĕn-dĕntl
adjective
Of or having to do with transcendentalism.
Webster's New World
Surpassing all others; superior.
American Heritage
Beyond common thought or experience; mystical or supernatural.
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Transcendent.

Webster's New World
In Kantian philosophy, based on those elements of experience which derive not from sense data but from the inherent organizing functions of the mind, and which are the necessary conditions of human knowledge; transcending sense experience but not knowledge.
Webster's New World
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noun

(obsolete) A transcendentalist.

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Other Word Forms of Transcendental

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transcendental
Plural:
transcendentals

Transcendental Sentence Examples

  • Transcendental method is indeed not invulnerable.

  • The philosophy of nature and transcendental philosophy are the two complementary portions of philosophy as a whole.

  • Thus religion is ethical through and through, as God's inner nature, expressed in forgiveness, mercy, righteousness and truth, is not something transcendental, but belongs to the realm of daily life.

  • Kant's distinction of " deist " and " theist " may be found in the Critique of Pure Reason, " Transcendental Dialectic," Book II.

  • The transcendental deduction, or proof from the possibility of experience in general, which forms the vital centre of the Kantian scheme, is wanting in Reid; or, at all events, if the spirit of the proof is occasionally present, it is nowhere adequately developed.

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