transactor

[Latin.] One who transacts; one who manages, performs, or carries out any busine or matter. IMG:content-1321.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1322.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1323.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1324.png:[blocks in formation] "This concept [of Being] cept, for not only the substantial is , but also the acciden tal is ; in like manner it is more general than the concepts God and the World, for being is a predicate of both .". Ueberweg: Hist . Philos . (Eng. ed.), 1. 455. (2) Applied by Kant to that which goes wholly be- yond experience, or deals with or treats of matters wholly beyond experience. "But another road leads to the same transcendent ques- tions-transcendent because they treat the forms of hu- man thought not merely as logically antecedent to the products of experience, but because they apply these forms to problems where experience wants data."- Wallace : Kant , p. 180. "The shore let her transcend , the promont to descry, And view about the point th' unnumber'd fowl that fly. Drayton: Polyolbion , s. 1. 2. Metaph .: A transcendent concept; a transcen- dental (q. v.). trăn-sçen-děnt-al, adj . & subst . [Eng. transcen- excellent; supereminent. 1. Surpa ing all others; transcendent; supremely "Though the deity perceiveth not pleasure nor pain, as we do; yet he must have a perfect and transcendental per- ception of these, and of all other things." - Grew: Cos- mologia. IMG:content-1325.png:[blocks in formation] included under any genus, but transcends them all, so the properties or affections of Being have also been called transcendent."-Fleming: Vocabulary of Philos . (ed. Cal. derwood), p. 504. (2) Applied by Kant to that which deals with or constitutes a category or categories of thought. 1. The same as TRANSCENDENTALIST (q. v.). 2. A concept transcending the Aristo tel i an cate- gories. [CATEGORY.] "The three properties of Being commonly enumerated are unum , verum , and bonum . To these some add a liquid and res : and these, with ens , make the six transcenden. tals. But res and a liquid mean only the same as ens. The first three are properly called transcendentals, as these only are pa ions or affections of being, as being." -Fleming: Vocabulary of Philos . (ed. Cal der wood), p. 504. transcendental-anatomy, s. Anat .: The highest department of anatomy; that which, after details have been ascertained, ad- vances to the consideration of the type or plan of structure, the relations between the several parts, and the theoretical problems thus suggested. IMG:content-1326.png:[blocks in formation] integrity of man; of the immanence of Divinity in in- stinct ianism, whose characteristic dogma was trust in human reason as correlative to Supreme Wisdom, had been grafted German Idealism, as taught by masters of most various schools-by Kant and Jacobi, Fichte and Novalis, Schelling and Hegel, Schleiermacher and de Wette; by Madame de Stael, Cousin, Cole ridge, and Carlyle; and the result was a vague yet exalting conception of the god-like nature of the human spirit. Transcendentalism, as viewed by its disciples, was a pilgrimage from the idolatrous world of creeds and rituals to the temple of the Living God in the soul." transcendently trăn-sçen-dent-lý, adverb . [English, transcen dent: -ly.] In a transcend ant manner or degree; supereminently; by way of excellence; preeminently; as, He is transcendently philosophical.