Transcendental
[tran-sen-den-tl, -suh n-] /ˌtræn sɛnˈdɛn tl, -sən-/
adjective
1.
transcendent, surpassing, or superior.
2.
being beyond ordinary or common experience, thought, or belief; supernatural.
3.
abstract or metaphysical.
4.
idealistic, lofty, or extravagant.
5.
Philosophy.
beyond the contingent and accidental in human experience, but not beyond all human knowledge.
Compare transcendent (def 4b).
pertaining to certain theories, etc., explaining what is objective as the contribution of the mind.
Kantianism. of, pertaining to, based upon, or concerned with a priori elements in experience, which condition human knowledge.
Compare transcendent (def 4b).
noun
6.
Mathematics. transcendental number.
7.
transcendentals, Scholasticism. categories that have universal application, as being, one, true, good.
transcendental
/ˌtrænsɛnˈdɛntəl/
adjective
1.
transcendent, superior, or surpassing
2.
(in the philosophy of Kant)
(of a judgment or logical deduction) being both synthetic and a priori
of or relating to knowledge of the presuppositions of thought
3.
(philosophy) beyond our experience of phenomena, although not beyond potential knowledge
4.
(theol) surpassing the natural plane of reality or knowledge; supernatural or mystical
Read Also:
- Transcendental-aesthetic
noun 1. (in Kantian epistemology) the study of space and time as the a priori forms of perception.
- Transcendental-analytic
noun, Kantianism. 1. (in transcendental logic) the study of the means by which the mind categorizes data from the sensory manifold.
- Transcendental argument
noun 1. (philosophy) an argument designed to make explicit the conditions under which a certain kind of knowledge is possible, esp those of Kant
- Transcendental-dialectic
noun, Kantianism. 1. (in transcendental logic) the study of the fallacious attribution of objective reality to the perceptions by the mind of external objects. Compare dialectic (def 8).
- Transcendental-ego
noun 1. (in Kantian epistemology) that part of the self that is the subject and never the object.