Transcendental

(-sen-dental.) [ From L. transcendo, I climb over.) (Philos.) According to the definition of Kant, " that knowledge which occupies itself not so much with objects as with the way of knowing those objects; " or, " the philosophy of the pure, merely speculative reason, from which the practical is separated." -(Alg.) A quantity which cannot be represented by an algebraic equation, having a finite number of terms, with determinate indices. Thus: ax xx log. x, .- A T. equation is one containing such expre ions; and a T. curve, one defined by such an equation. [s. 904]