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  1. 1. n. A transcendentalist. Source: opted
  2. 2. adj. existing outside of or not in accordance with nature Source: wordnet
  3. 3. adj. of or characteristic of a system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material Source: wordnet
  4. 4. In the Kantian system, of or pertaining to that which can bedetermined a priori in regard to the fundamental principles of allhuman knowledge. What is transcendental, therefore, transcendsempiricism; but is does not transcend all human knowledge, or becometranscendent. It simply signifies the a priori or necessaryconditions of experience which, though affording the conditions ofexperience, transcend the sphere of that contingent knowledge whichis acquired by experience. Source: adambom
  5. 5. j:100 a. of or characteristic of a system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material Source: ecdict

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