transcendental
/ˌtransɛnˈdɛnt(ə)l
/ /ˌtrɑːnsɛnˈdɛnt(ə)l/adjective
1Relating to a spiritual realm: the transcendental importance of each person’s soul...
- The spiritual in man may soar in the highest transcendental realms, but man's body is essentially that of an animal.
- Hindus readily accept as reality transcendental realms of Gods and devas and higher modes of consciousness than that in which we commonly live.
- Isaac's prayer is symbolic of the transcendental spiritual beauty of Judaism.
1.1Relating to or denoting Transcendentalism.Kant's assertion that transcendental idealism entails empirical realism is difficult to interpret....
- On the other hand, transcendental empiricism has epistemological implications insofar as knowledge too must be formed in a process of individuation.
- How should we assess Husserl's transcendental phenomenology?
2(In Kantian philosophy) presupposed in and necessary to experience; a priori.Echoes of the subsequent post-Hegelian criticisms of Kantian transcendental philosophy are found in the early work of Horkheimer and Marcuse....
- Husserl sees his own transcendental phenomenology as the true heir to Kant's transcendental philosophy.
- Eze evidently thinks it very important to emphasize that Kant appealed to his transcendental philosophy and his theory of the a priori to formulate his racial theory.
3 Mathematics (Of a number, e.g. e or π) real but not a root of an algebraic equation with rational coefficients.Liouville had introduced such numbers as examples of transcendental numbers - real numbers that are not roots of polynomial equations with integer coefficients....
- Mathematicians had regarded algebraic numbers as, in some sense, simpler than transcendental numbers.
- The very names negative numbers, irrational numbers, transcendental numbers, imaginary numbers, and ideal points at infinity indicate ambivalence.
3.1(Of a function) not capable of being produced by the algebraical operations of addition, multiplication, and involution, or the inverse operations.If fifth-degree polynomials are so hard, what can one do with transcendental functions of a complex variable?...
- It was decided to concentrate on a three-volume work on the Higher transcendental functions, to be followed by two volumes of tables of integrals.
- I have just finished an extensive treatise on a certain class of transcendental functions to present it to the Institute which will be done next Monday.
Derivatives
transcendentalize
- Why transcendentalize the arbitrary confections dreamt up by a particular animal's socio-biotic coding?
- That immediately transcendentalizes them in two ways.
- He is also opposed to any move to transcendentalize trauma, thereby neutralizing the moral differences between victims and perpetrators (since everyone is always already traumatized).
transcendentally
- In short, what it was like to be transcendentally fatalist in a time when conventional, run-of-the-mill fatalism wasn't enough.
- I remained almost transcendentally calm, Christ-like in my turning of the other cheek and Gandhi-like in my restraint from smacking him in the mouth.
- How can your current beliefs be so transcendentally correct if you yourself recently believed something very different?
Origin
Early 17th century: from medieval Latin transcendentalis (see transcendent).