ALL meanings of transcendental
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T t - adjective transcendental transcendent, surpassing, or superior. 1
- adjective transcendental being beyond ordinary or common experience, thought, or belief; supernatural. 1
- adjective transcendental abstract or metaphysical. 1
- adjective transcendental idealistic, lofty, or extravagant. 1
- adjective transcendental Philosophy. beyond the contingent and accidental in human experience, but not beyond all human knowledge. Compare transcendent (def 4b). pertaining to certain theories, etc., explaining what is objective as the contribution of the mind. Kantianism. of, pertaining to, based upon, or concerned with a priori elements in experience, which condition human knowledge. Compare transcendent (def 4b). 1
- noun transcendental Mathematics. transcendental number. 1
- noun transcendental transcendentals, Scholasticism. categories that have universal application, as being, one, true, good. 1
- adjective transcendental going beyond the ordinary 1
- adjective transcendental Transcendental refers to things that lie beyond the practical experience of ordinary people, and cannot be discovered or understood by ordinary reasoning. 0
- adjective transcendental transcendent, superior, or surpassing 0
- adjective transcendental (of a judgment or logical deduction) being both synthetic and a priori 0
- adjective transcendental of or relating to knowledge of the presuppositions of thought 0
- adjective transcendental beyond our experience of phenomena, although not beyond potential knowledge 0
- adjective transcendental surpassing the natural plane of reality or knowledge; supernatural or mystical 0
- adjective transcendental transcendent (sense 1) 0
- adjective transcendental supernatural 0
- adjective transcendental abstract; metaphysical 0
- adjective transcendental of or having to do with transcendentalism 0
- adjective transcendental in Kantian philosophy, based on those elements of experience which derive not from sense data but from the inherent organizing functions of the mind, and which are the necessary conditions of human knowledge; transcending sense experience but not knowledge 0
- adjective transcendental not capable of being a root of any algebraic equation with rational coefficients 0
- adjective transcendental of, pertaining to, or being a function, as a logarithm, trigonometric function, exponential, etc., that is not expressible algebraically in terms of the variables and constants 0