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transcendentalist
Variant of transcendentalism
noun
- any of various philosophies that propose to discover the nature of reality by investigating the process of thought rather than the objects of sense experience: the philosophies of Kant, Hegel, and Fichte are examples of transcendentalism
- ☆ by extension, the philosophical ideas of Emerson and some other 19th-cent. New Englanders, based on a search for reality through spiritual intuition
- popularly any obscure, visionary, or idealistic thought
Related Forms:
- transcendentalist noun, adjective
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