transcendental
pronunciation
How to pronounce transcendental in British English:
UK [ˌtrænsenˈdentl]
How to pronounce transcendental in American English:
US [ˌtrænsɛnˈdɛntl]
-
- Adjective:
- existing outside of or not in accordance with nature
- of or characteristic of a system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual about the empirical and material
Word Origin
- transcendental (adj.)
- 1660s, from Medieval Latin transcendentalis, from Latin transcendentem (see transcendent). Related: Transcendentally. Transcendental meditation attested by 1966.
Example
- 1. Kant 's critical philosophy his transcendental idealism offers justification of our claims to knowledge by spelling out its nature , range and limitations .
- 2. Kant 's ' transcendental idealism ' is his theory that the human mind itself imposes the forms of our experience onto the information given to us through our senses .
- 3. His characters , and to some extent murakami himself , look for meaning in the cult 's transcendental rituals and belief systems .
- 4. That unity of self consciousness , however , kant called transcendental only ; and he meant thereby that the unity was only in our minds and did not attach to the objects apart from our knowledge of them .