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transcendentalist

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An adherent of some form of: transcendentalism; especially, an American follower of Sehelling.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who believes in transcendentalism.

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  • noun One who believes in transcendentalism.
  • noun A group of philosophers who assert that true knowledge is obtained by faculties of the mind that transcend sensory experience; those who exalt intuition above empirical knowledge and ordinary mentation. Used in modern times of some post-Kantian German philosophers, and of the school of Emerson.

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  • noun advocate of transcendentalism

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transcendental +‎ -ist

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