adjective. undefined

adjective. Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge as independent of experience.

adjective. Asserting a fundamental irrationality or supernatural element in experience.

adjective. Surpassing all others; superior.

adjective. Beyond common thought or experience; mystical or supernatural.

adjective. Of or relating to a real or complex number that is not the root of any polynomial that has positive degree and rational coefficients.

Same as transcendent, 1.

In philosophy: In Aristotelian philosophy, extending beyond the bounds of a single category.

In Cartesian philosophy, predicable both of body and of spirit.

Pertaining to the existence in experience of a priori elements; a priori. This is chiefly a Kantian term, but was also used by Dugald Stewart. See Kantianism, category, a priori.

In Schellingistic philosophy, explaining matter and all that is objective as a product of subjective mind.

Abstrusely speculative; beyond the reach of ordinary, every-day, or common thought and experience; hence, vague; obscure; fantastic; extravagant.

Not capable of being produced by the algebraical operations of addition, multiplication, involution, and their inverse operations. The commonest transcendental functions are e, log x, sin x, etc.

Knowledge a priori.

The value of a transcendental function.

A first principle.

noun. A transcendent conception, such as thing, something, one, true. good.

noun. A transcendentalist.

adjective. Supereminent; surpassing others.

adjective. In the Kantian system, of or pertaining to that which can be determined a priori in regard to the fundamental principles of all human knowledge. What is transcendental, therefore, transcends empiricism; but is does not transcend all human knowledge, or become transcendent. It simply signifies the a priori or necessary conditions of experience which, though affording the conditions of experience, transcend the sphere of that contingent knowledge which is acquired by experience.

adjective. Vaguely and ambitiously extravagant in speculation, imagery, or diction.

adjective. a curve in which one ordinate is a transcendental function of the other.

adjective. an equation into which a transcendental function of one of the unknown or variable quantities enters.

adjective. See under Function.

noun. A transcendentalist.

adjective. Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge, independent of experience.

adjective. Superior, surpassing all others.

adjective. Extraordinary.

adjective. Mystical or supernatural.

adjective. Of, or relating to a number that is not the root of any polynomial that has positive degree and rational coefficients.

adjective. existing outside of or not in accordance with nature

adjective. of or characteristic of a system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material

""I apply the term transcendental to all knowledge which is not so much occupied with objects as with the mode of our cognition of these objects, so far as this mode of cognition is possible a priori.""

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