Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Productive of effects outside the mind.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Passing outward; operating outside of itself: opposed to immanent.
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- adjective philosophy, of a mental act
Emanant ; producing an effect outside of the mind. Compareimmanent .
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- adjective of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The pluralism with which our view began has to give place to a monism; and the 'transeunt' interaction, being unintelligible as such, is to be understood as an immanent operation. [
A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
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(“Primary Truths” C 519/L 268), yet there can be no transeunt (i.e., intersubstantial) causation (Discourse on Metaphysics §14, GP iv 439/L 312).
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Leibniz, like Spinoza, rejected the possibility of transeunt causation among substances.
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While Spinoza agreed with Descartes that God is the cause of all things, he regarded him not as a transeunt cause, creating the universe
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Affectus parentum in foetus transeunt, et puerorum malicia parentibus imputanda, lib.
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The pluralism with which our view began has to give place to a monism; and the ˜transeunt™ interaction, being unintelligible as such, is to be understood as an immanent operation.
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He is led to this conception by, among other things, the difficulties associated with the notion of metaphysical or transeunt causality.
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Equo igitur in aquam impulso, omnes alij equi sequuntur illum, et sic transeunt fluuium.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
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Ligantque super cordam illam quasdam de Bucaramo scissiones, sub qua scilicet corda et ligaturis inter illos ignes transeunt homines, ac bestiæ ac stationes.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
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Soldainorum, Kerkisorum, Alanorum: qui omnes transeunt per cum quum vidunt ad curiam patris sui deferre ei munera, vnde magis amplectitur eos.
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