Transcendent Definition

trăn-sĕndənt
adjective
Transcending; surpassing; excelling; extraordinary.
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In Kantianism, beyond human knowledge.
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Beyond the limits of possible experience.
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Transcending the Aristotelian categories.
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Existing apart from the material universe.
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That which surpasses or is supereminent; something excellent.

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transcendent
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transcendents

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Transcendent Sentence Examples

  • God is regarded as the transcendent source of being and purity, from which the individual in his natural state is alienated and afar off.

  • Because Allah is considered to be totally transcendent, his creation shares none of his character.

  • God was apt to be thought of as purely transcendent, not immanent in the world.

  • The idea of the soul must be regarded as transcendent.

  • The sense in which there must be a ground of the unity of the supersensible 2 while yet the transcendent use of Reason - i.e.

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