transcendental

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[ UK /tɹænsɪndˈɛntə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˌtɹænsənˈdɛnəɫ, ˌtɹænsənˈdɛntəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or characteristic of a system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
  2. existing outside of or not in accordance with nature
    find transcendental motives for sublunary action
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How To Use transcendental In A Sentence

  • The result of this inversion is for Chayes a new transcendentalism, one in which "the man raises himself to a level above both the human and the mundane natural" (Shelley 624). Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'
  • We honor Ralph Waldo Emerson, but where does Transcendentalism figure in anybody's life today?
  • Fujiwara's fictional art-market foundation is pointedly pre-Christian; he wants, he suggests, to reference a period before art was required to be "transcendental" or "moral" and link it to its strictly "commercialised" roots. Frieze art fair 2010 – review
  • The criticism of our time ... is indissociable from an investigation and experience of its transcendental field (s), of the (impersonal) tendencies and haecceities which traverse it, as well as the potentialities, utopian ones perhaps, with which our present can be composed. The Skeptic's Field Guide
  • It seems that transcendental phenomenology inevitably involves solipsism.
  • Mathematicians had regarded algebraic numbers as, in some sense, simpler than transcendental numbers.
  • His biography is eminently sensible on a subject about which much high-flown transcendental nonsense has been written.
  • Of the irrational, transcendental numbers, pi seems to get all the attention.
  • Yes, the transcendental deduction is not and cannot be based on direct evidence. Matthew Yglesias » Kinsley’s Transcendental Deduction of Hyperinflation
  • Like Hegel, Adorno criticizes Kant's distinction between phenomena and noumena by arguing that the transcendental conditions of experience can be neither so pure nor so separate from each other as Kant seems to claim.
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