TRANSCENDENTALISM
\tɹansɪndˈɛntəlˌɪzəm], \tɹansɪndˈɛntəlˌɪzəm], \t_ɹ_a_n_s_ɪ_n_d_ˈɛ_n_t_ə_l_ˌɪ_z_ə_m]\
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The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
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Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.
By Oddity Software
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The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
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Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.
By Noah Webster.
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In philosophy, the going beyond human experience to find the main principles of knowledge; the theory that the spiritual side of human life rules over the actual facts of experience; impractical idealism.
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Transcendentalist.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Transcendentalist.
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The investigation of what is a priori in human knowledge, or independent of experience: that which is vague and illusive in philosophy.
By Daniel Lyons
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Philosophy which deals with conceptions that transcend experience.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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n. In the Kantian philosophy, the transcending or going beyond empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge ;-system of investigation of the higher truths of being, human or divine, apart from the facts and forms of existence as ascertained by observation and experience, and the logical processes and formula of scientific enquiry; the highest philosophy;- in popular language, that which is vague, mystical, or extravagant in philosophical theories or statements.
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).