transcendental

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As a result, the transcendental is the condition of bodies (for-us), but the body is the condition of the transcendental.

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  1. adjective Philosophy Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge as independent of experience.
  2. adjective Philosophy Asserting a fundamental irrationality or supernatural element in experience.
  3. adjective Surpassing all others; superior.

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  • As a result, the transcendental is the condition of bodies (for-us), but the body is the condition of the transcendental. —  Larval Subjects .
  • It is the non-empirical condition for the transcendental, for without the body the transcendental could not take place. —  Larval Subjects .
  • When a transcendental issue confronts us we need the moral clarity which comes best from faith based vision. —  Latest Articles
  • Chuck Klosterman once wrote that listening to Explosions in the Sky could make hanging drywall seem transcendental, and he was right. —  Esquire.com Article Feed
  • The evolutionists, however, had no such scruples Phylogenetic method differed in no way from transcendental--except perhaps that it had learnt from von Baer and from Darwin to give more weight to embryology. —  Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
 

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  1. =F. transcendantal =Spanish transcendental, trascendentel =Portuguese transcendental =Italian trascendentale =G. transscendental; as transcendent + -al.
 

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/trænsɛnˈdɛntəl/
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