transrational
- adjective
- /trænzˈræʃənl/
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transracional
- Many artistic expressions aim to explore transrational themes that defy conventional logic.
Examples
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Now, to some degree, by its very definition, magic has to be kind of transrational.
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Eastern mystics, through years of intense meditative practice, have cultivated transrational experiences that connect the knower and the known, allowing them to "enter into" inseparable space and timelessness and dissolve distinctions between object and event, mind and matter, and self and environment.
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The first level, the transrational, begins at the deontological extreme of the continuum.
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The value levels include the transrational, the rational, and the subrational which, according to Hodgkinson (1991), can be placed along a continuum (i.e., from "right" to "good").
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While there as yet exists no empirical evidence to suggest that the officials capable of higher levels of valuation are "better" officials or to support the existence of a phenomenon of officials "developing" through the various phases, i.e., from the realm of self-interest and power to that of a transrational concern for the "spirit" of the game, one may hypothesize that such phenomena may exist.
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Ideas such as spontaneous creativity and mind-in-nature (used by many scholar-advocates to interpret the findings of the new physics) might be inspired by theory, but they can only be perceived experientially through transrational ways of knowing.
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In her lecture, she discussed how transrational philosophies can challenge our understanding of reality.
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Some experiences in nature can feel transrational, evoking emotions that logic cannot explain.
Synonyms
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Far beyond normal limits in experience, knowledge, or quality
Beyond what the mind can fully understand
Thinking beyond simple logic that uses different points of view and feelings
A concept beyond ordinary experience and understanding
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Transrational combines the prefix trans- ('beyond') and rational ('reason'), the same trans- you see in transport. So a transrational experience is one that goes beyond normal logical thinking and cannot be explained by reason alone.