- Supereminent; surpassing others; as,
transcendental being or qualities. - 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. - Vaguely and ambitiously extravagant in
speculation, imagery, or diction.
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