About The Word Transcendent
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Transcendent
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What's The Definition Of Transcendent?
[adj] beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding; "philosophers...often explicitly reject the notion of any transcendent reality beyond thought...and claim to be concerned only with thought itself..."- W.P.Alston; "the unknowable mysteries of lifer"
[adj] exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence Synonyms | Synonyms for Transcendent: superior | surpassing | unknowable | unknown Related Terms | Find terms related to Transcendent: See Also | Transcendent In Webster's Dictionary \Tran*scend"ent\, a. [L. transcendens, -entis, p.
pr. of transcendere to transcend: cf. F. transcendant, G.
transcendent.]
1. Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence;
surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent
valor.
Clothed with transcendent brightness. --Milton.
2. (Kantian Philos.) Transcending, or reaching beyond, the
limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and
speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the
human intellect.
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