Transcendental (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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.
    • pertaining to certain theories, etc., explaining what is objective as the contribution of the mind.
    • of, pertaining to, based upon, or concerned with a priori elements in experience, which condition human knowledge.
noun
  1. transcendental number.
  2. categories that have universal application, as being, one, true, good.
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. beyond our experience of phenomena, although not beyond potential knowledge
  4. surpassing the natural plane of reality or knowledge; supernatural or mystical
Transcendental (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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