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tran·scen·den·tal       [tran-sen-den-tl, -suhn-] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.transcendent, surpassing, or superior.
2.being beyond ordinary or common experience, thought, or belief; supernatural.
3.abstract or metaphysical.
4.idealistic, lofty, or extravagant.
5.Philosophy.
a.beyond the contingent and accidental in human experience, but not beyond all human knowledge. Compare transcendent (def. 4b).
b.pertaining to certain theories, etc., explaining what is objective as the contribution of the mind.
c.Kantianism. of, pertaining to, based upon, or concerned with a priori elements in experience, which condition human knowledge. Compare transcendent (def. 4b).
–noun
6.Mathematics. transcendental number.
7.transcendentals, Scholasticism. categories that have universal application, as being, one, true, good.
[Origin: 1615–25; < ML trānscendentālis. See transcendent, -al1]

—Related forms
tran·scen·den·tal·i·ty, noun
tran·scen·den·tal·ly, adverb
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tran·scen·den·tal       (trān'sěn-děn'tl)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Philosophy
    1. Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge as independent of experience.
    2. Asserting a fundamental irrationality or supernatural element in experience.
  2. Surpassing all others; superior.
  3. Beyond common thought or experience; mystical or supernatural.
  4. Mathematics Of or relating to a real or complex number that is not the root of any polynomial that has positive degree and rational coefficients.

tran'scen·den'tal·ly adv.
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transcendental

adjective
1. existing outside of or not in accordance with nature; "find transcendental motives for sublunary action"-Aldous Huxley [syn: nonnatural] 
2. of or characteristic of a system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material 

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Transcendental

Em*pir"ic\, Empirical \Em*pir"ic*al\, a. 1. Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments.

In philosophical language, the term empirical means simply what belongs to or is the product of experience or observation. --Sir W. Hamilton.

The village carpenter . . . lays out his work by empirical rules learnt in his apprenticeship. --H. Spencer.

2. Depending upon experience or observation alone, without due regard to science and theory; -- said especially of medical practice, remedies, etc.; wanting in science and deep insight; as, empiric skill, remedies.

Empirical formula. (Chem.) See under Formula.

Syn: See Transcendental.

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