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transcendental

transcendental

5 9.9
Valuing intuition and spirit more than scientific evidence
  • adjective
  • /ˌtræn.sənˈdɛn.təl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : trascendental
  • Her writing reflects a transcendental perspective, valuing spiritual insights rather than empirical facts.
  • transcendental meditation
  • transcendental precept
  • transcendental notion

Are we sort of taking a transcendental turn at this point?

Examples

  • An observational use of the camera would put viewers in touch with that transcendental truth.

    Academic text (2017)

  • The University permitted the use of its facilities for speakers advocating transcendental meditation and humanism.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Are we sort of taking a transcendental turn at this point?

    Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

  • I am the transcendental self.

    Watch Out (2008)

  • Can he ground that pattern in a transcendental method which is not open to fundamental revision?

    Academic text (1993)

  • In the last two decades, there have been consistent efforts to analyze the impact of Transcendental thought on American Romanticism.

    Academic text (2003)

  • To Pirsig, it is a transcendental feeling of harmony with nature combined with reason to create tranquility.

    Academic text (1995)

  • Its inhabitants, however different their beliefs about the transcendental, held that a divine world intersected their world, whether it was "rose-pink."

    Academic text (2008)

  • Even the sworn believers in a harsh rationalism had a secret hankering for the transcendental.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Dieter Henrich has shown that Kant did try to find such a strictly theoretical validation of transcendental freedom throughout the 1770s.

    Academic text (2017)

Compounds

transcendental number
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A number that is not a solution of any polynomial equation with rational coefficients

transcendental philosophy
  • Specialized
9.9

Study of ideas that values inner feeling and spiritual belief over facts

How Spiritual

mystical
106 7.1
transcendental
  • Specialized
5 9.9
idealistic
  • Specialized
47 7.0
rational
382 3.8
empirical
  • Formal
62 5.9

Surface Forms

transcendental positive

Morphology

transcendental = transcend (semi-transparent) = transcend + al

The derivation from 'transcend' is clear, but this sense carries a technical philosophical meaning that is not directly inferable by average learners.

Etymology

The word transcendental comes from trans- 'across' and scend, like the word ascend, which means 'to climb', so it suggests 'rising above' everyday facts. That's why a transcendental philosophy values intuition and the spirit more than only what we can measure.