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transcendental (pluraltranscendentals)
- (obsolete) Atranscendentalist.
- (philosophy, metaphysics, Platonism, Christian theology, usually in theplural) Any one of the threetranscendental properties of being:truth,beauty orgoodness, which respectively are theideals ofscience,art andreligion and the principal subjects of the study oflogic,aesthetics andethics.
2012,Jean Grondin, translated by Lukas Soderstrom,Introduction to Metaphysics: From Parmenides to Levinas,Columbia University Press,page105:These predicates of Being are what the Medievals called, using a term that will have a fertile future, "transcendentals" (often called the "universals") because they transcend all particular genera, following the example of Being.96 A quarrel over thesetranscendentals even shook the later Middle Ages. The quarrel stemmed from the question of whether the existence of thesetranscendentals was real or intellectual (also called nominal).
2012, Jan Aertsen,Medieval Philosophy as Transcendental Thought: From Philip the Chancellor (ca. 1225) to Francisco Suárez, BRILL,page515:The medieval doctrine of thetranscendentals is closely connected with a metaphysical conception of reality, but is there a science of being in William of Ockham (ca. 1285-1347)?
2015, Anthony Howard,Humanise: Why Human-Centred Leadership is the Key to the 21st Century, Wiley,page70:Another fascinating thing about thetranscendentals is that each is fully contained in the others. When you appreciate beauty, for example, you recognise the presence of goodness and truth. When you grasp the truth about something you experience a moment of beauty in, perhaps, the simplicity or power of the insight. When you observe goodness in the actions of another person you are seeing truth and beauty in operation.
transcendental property of being
transcendental (comparativemoretranscendental,superlativemosttranscendental)
- (philosophy)Concerned with thea priori orintuitivebasis ofknowledge,independent ofexperience.
1985,J. N. Mohanty,The Possibility ofTranscendental Philosophy[1], Kluwer Academic (Martinus Nijhoff), page xiii:The best way to demonstrate the possibility of something is to show its actuality, for actuality implies possibility. At least since Kant,transcendental philosophies have been on the scene. However, such simple demonstration of the possibility oftranscendental philosophy has not been effective and is not likely to be so — so strong is the presumption thattranscendental philosophy just could not be possible, or, if itwas possible earlier, it is not possiblenow.
- 1999,Robert Stern,4: On Kant's Response to Hume: The Second Analogy asTranscendental Argument, Robert Stern (editor),Transcendental Arguments: Problems and Prospects, 2003,Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), Paperback,page 47,
- Whilst it was once held thattranscendental arguments could provide a direct and straightforward refutation of scepticism, this view now seems over-optimistic.
- 2007,Steven Crowell,Jeff Malpas,Chapter 1: Introduction Steven Crowell, Jeff Malpas, (editors),Transcendental Heidegger,Stanford University Press,page 1,
- Not only does Heidegger's early work stand within the framework oftranscendental phenomenology as established by Husserl—even though it also contests and revises that framework—but that thinking also stands in a close relationship to the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and specifically to thetranscendental project, and modes of argument, of Kant'sCritique of Pure Reason.
- Superior;surpassing allothers;extraordinary;transcendent.
- Mystical orsupernatural.
- (algebra, number theory, field theory, of anumber or anelement of anextension field) Notalgebraic (i.e., not theroot of anypolynomial that haspositivedegree andrationalcoefficients).
1975,Alan Baker,Transcendental Number Theory, 2nd edition,Cambridge University Press, published1990,page 1:The theory oftranscendental numbers was originated by Liouville in his famous memoir† of 1844 in which he obtained, for the first time, a class,très-étendue, as it was described in the title of the paper, of numbers that satisfy no algebraic equation with integer coefficients.
2005, Juan G. Roederer,Information and Its Role in Nature, Springer,page28:If the distribution of decimal digits of
(or any othertranscendental number) is truly random (suspected but not yet mathematically proven!), given any arbitrary finite sequence of whole numbers, that sequence would be included an infinite number of times in the decimal expansion of.
- (algebra, field theory, of anextension field) That containselements that are notalgebraic.
- (antonym(s) of“not the root of a polynomial with rational coefficients”):algebraic
- (antonym(s) of“containing elements that are not the root of a polynomial”):algebraic
- (not the root of a polynomial with rational coefficients):irrational
terms derived directly fromtranscendental
independent of experience
not algebraic; containing elements that are not algebraic
transcendental (strong nominative masculine singulartranscendentaler,comparativetranscendentaler,superlativeamtranscendentalsten)
- obsolete spelling oftranszendental
Positive forms oftranscendental
Comparative forms oftranscendental
Superlative forms oftranscendental
Borrowed fromFrenchtranscendantal, fromLatintranscendentalis.
- IPA(key): /ˌtrans.t͡ʃe.denˈtal/
transcendental m orn (feminine singulartranscendentală,masculine pluraltranscendentali,feminine and neuter pluraltranscendentale)
- transcendental
transcendental m orf (masculine and feminine pluraltranscendentales)
- transcendental
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