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Transcendentalism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material wordnet
  3. 3
    Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality (associated with Kant); philosophy which stresses intuition and spirituality (associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson); transcendental character or quality. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    A movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From transcendental + -ism.

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