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transcendentalism
  1. The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
  2. Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.
  3. A philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality (associated with Kant); philosophy which stresses intuition and spirituality (associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson); transcendental character or quality.
  4. A movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths.
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    1. “The hermeneutic paradigm the Kantian narrative was designed to protect can best be put in terms of transcendentalism.”
      “The idealism of transcendentalism gave way to existential angst a long time ago.”
      “During our time spent abroad, we read and studied many texts and books of all types, but the main studied subject was transcendentalism.”
transcendence
  1. (countable) The act of surpassing usual limits.
  2. (uncountable) The state of being beyond the range of normal perception.
  3. (uncountable) The state of being free from the constraints of the material world, as in the case of a deity.
  4. Superior excellence; supereminence.
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    1. “It is not simply a matter of rebalancing the books between different forms of power but of recognizing the historical achievement of a kind of power that claims transcendence over all other forms of power.”
      “The transcendence of the deity is a conclusion of Greek philosophy.”
      “He interprets the moment of suicidal hesitation as a Keatsian yearning for transcendence through death.”
transcendentalist
  1. One who believes in transcendentalism.
  2. Any of a group of philosophers who assert that true knowledge is obtained by faculties of the mind that transcend sensory experience; those who exalt intuition above empirical knowledge and ordinary mentation. Used in modern times of some post-Kantian German philosophers, and of the school of Emerson.
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    1. “Mayo was inspired by Emerson's writings, but distinguished his beliefs from those aspects of transcendentalist philosophy which his audience found offensive.”
      “There was in his character, perhaps, something of the visionary and the transcendentalist.”
      “I am, moreover, to be perfectly frank, a transcendentalist on the subject of marriage.”
transcendency
  1. transcendence
  2. (obsolete) elevation above the truth; exaggeration
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    1. “I believe every problem of life can be solved by the transcendency of the spirit which has transcended us up here.”
      “It was her first, because she was the mother of a boy so well behaved that he had become a proverb of transcendency.”
      “This transcendency on their part inspired them with pride, and they would have liked to make a display of it.”
transcension
  1. (obsolete) The act of transcending, or surpassing.
  2. (obsolete) The act of passing over something.
transcendent
  1. That which surpasses or is supereminent; something excellent.
transcendentality
  1. The state or condition of being transcendental.
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    1. “Scotus formulates a new conception of transcendentality, according to which a transcendental has no predicate above it except being.”
      “Heidegger, however, advances on Husserl's ideas, contrasting with this notion of transcendentality and marking the subject as a being-in-the-world.”
transcendentalness
  1. The state or condition of being transcendental.
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transcendental
  1. (obsolete) A transcendentalist.
transcendentness
transcender
  1. One who transcends.
transcendentalisms
transcendentalists
  1. plural of transcendentalist
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    1. “In the 19th century, the transcendentalists, inspired by India, gave a characteristic orientation to America's self-definition.”
      “He subsequently led a simple life as one of the New England transcendentalists, writing poems, essays, and two books while trying to earn a living.”
      “The second mantra is intended for serious yogis and transcendentalists.”
transcendentalities
transcendentals
  1. plural of transcendental
transcendences
  1. plural of transcendence
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    1. “In science fiction there can be no inexplicable marvels, no transcendences, no devils or demons.”
      “We respond to the luminous revelations of small transcendences rather than the ungraspable miracles of the universe or the cosmos.”
      “And even if this is only wishful thinking, only a hope, we must recall that hope is one of those small transcendences of brute necessity that imbue life with meaning.”
transcendencies
transcendents
  1. plural of transcendent
transcensions
  1. plural of transcension
transcenders
  1. plural of transcender
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