Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being transcendental.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being transcendental.
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- noun The state or condition of being
transcendental .
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Examples
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The latter looms as the organicist abstraction of Odic transcendentality itself, where
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This is a completely familiar religious attitude, and I suspect it is precisely because so many techno-utopians are deeply invested in an hysterically reductionist fantasy of hyper-scientificity and anti-religiosity that they get particularly queasy when the obvious residue of transcendentality and faith in their formulations gets too close for comfort, and so they start trying to smother it in the terminological equivalent of mounds of styrofoam packing peanuts.
amor mundi 2009
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This might be approached also in terms of the differences between Karl Rahner and Henri de Lubac, where the tendency is, in the case of Rahner, to see history and society as necessary and inescapable pointers to a generic transcendentality, whereas de Lubac remains more ready to deliver grace and the supernatural into the hands of human action and the particularities of time and history.
sacra doctrina 2008
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