Transcendental

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1. Template:Lb A transcendentalist.
2. Template:Lb Any one of the three transcendental properties of being: truth, beauty or goodness, which respectively are the ideals of science, art and religion and the principal subjects of the study of logic, aesthetics and ethics.
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1. Template:Lb Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge, independent of experience.
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   • 1999, Template:W, 4: On Kant's Response to Hume: The Second Analogy as Transcendental Argument, Robert Stern (editor), Transcendental Arguments: Problems and Prospects, 2003, Template:W (Clarendon Press), Paperback, page 47,

     Whilst it was once held that transcendental arguments could provide a direct and straightforward refutation of scepticism, this view now seems over-optimistic.

   • 2007, Template:W, Template:W, Chapter 1: Introduction Steven Crowell, Jeff Malpas, (editors), Transcendental Heidegger, Template:W, page 1,

     Not only does Heidegger's early work stand within the framework of transcendental phenomenology as established by Husserl—even though it also contests and revises that framework—but that thinking also stands in a close relationship to the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and specifically to the transcendental project, and modes of argument, of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

2. Superior; surpassing all others; extraordinary; transcendent.
3. Mystical or supernatural.
4. Template:Lb Not algebraic (i.e., not the root of any polynomial that has positive degree and rational coefficients).
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5. Template:Lb That contains elements that are not algebraic.
   • 2006, Template:W, Field Theory, Springer, 2nd Edition, Template:W 158, page 108,

     Suppose that $F<E$ is purely transcendental. Show that any simple extension of $F$ contained in $E$ (but not equal to $F$) is transcendental over $F$.

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