transcendental (transendental)

and n. [= F. transcendantal = Sp. transcendental, tra scendental = Pg. transcendental = It. trascen dentale G. tran cendental; as transcendent + -al.] I. a. 1. Same as transcendent, 1. Though the Deity perceiveth not pleasure nor pain as we do, yet he must have a perfect and transcendental perception of these and of all other things. N. Grew , Cosmologia Sacra. 2. In philos.: (a) In Aristo tel i an philosophy, extending beyond the bounds of a single category. The doctrine implied is that every strictly univocal predicate is contained under one of the ten predicaments; but there are certain predicates, as being ( ens ), one, true, good, which are univocal in a modified but not very clearly defined sense, which extend over all the predicaments or categories. ( b ) In Cartes i an philosophy, predicable both of body and of spirit. Clauberg. (c) Pertaining to the existence in experience of a prior i elements; a prior i. This is chiefly a Kantian term, but was also used by Dugald Stewart. See Kantianism, category, a prior i. Transcendental and transcendent do not mean the same thing. The principles of the pure understanding, which we explained before, are meant to be only of empirical, and not of transcendental application, that is, they cannot transcend the limits of experience. A principle, on the contrary, which removes those landmarks, nay, insists on our transcending them, is called transcendent. Kant , Critique of Pure Reason (tr. by Müller), II. 256. The belief which all men entertain of the existence of the material world (I mean their belief of its existence independently of that of percipient beings), and their expectation of the continued uniformity of the laws of nature, belong to the same cla of ultimate or elemental laws of thought with those which have been just mentioned. The truths which form their objects are of an order so radically different from what are commonly called truths, in the popular acceptation of that word, that it might perhaps be useful for logicians to distinguish them by some appropriate appellation, such, for example, as that of metaphysical or transcendental truths. They are not principles or data. from which any consequence can be deduced, form a part of those original stamina of human reason, and to all the active concerns of life. butter science, D. Stewart , Collected Works (ed. Hamilton), III. 44. IMG:content-0727.png:[blocks in formation] ciples without which generally no object can be thought; the decomposition of our collective cognition a prior i into the elements of pure intellectual cognition. -Transcendental anatomy. See anatomy. - Transcendental apperception, the original invariable self-consciousne , in which every thought is brought to logical unity. Transcendental cognition. Same as transcendental knowledge. - Transcendental critic, the doctrine of the correctne of human cognition, showing how far it is to be trusted, and what elements are subjective, what objective. Transcendental curve. See curve. Transcendental deduction, the explanation of the way in which concepts a prior i can refer to objects. -Transcendental dialectic, the destructive part of transcendental logic, showing how the speculative reason falls into fallacies, owing to the nature of the mind. - Transcendental equation. See equation. - Transcendental esthetic, the Kantian doctrine of the forms of pure sensibility, space, and time. - Transcendental exposition, the definition of a concept as a principle from which the po ibility of other synthetical cognitions a prior i can be understood. - Transcendental function, geometry, idealism. See the nouns. - Transcendental ideality, the mode of existence of space and time according to the Kantian theory-that they are real in the sense of truly belonging to real phenomenal objects, but unreal in so far as they are elements imported by the mind. Transcendental imagination, the reproductive synthesis which takes place in all perception. - Transcendental knowledge. (a) As used by Kant, knowledge concerning our a prior i concepts of objects. (b) Know ledge a prior i. Sir W. Hamilton. - Transcendental locus, a locus which in the ordinary system of coördinates is represented by a transcendental equation. - Transcendental logic, the critic of thought; the theory of the origin of our knowledge in those elements of conception which cannot be attributed to sense. - Transcendental object, the unknown real object, according to the Kantian theory. See universal. -Transcendental paralogism. See paralogism. - Transcendental perfection, is nece ary to the e ence of the thing to which it belongs. Transcendental philosophy. See philosophy. Transcendental place, the fact that a concept belongs either to sensibility on the one hand, or to the pure understanding on the other; the determination of an object either to be a phenomenon or to be a thing in itself. Transcendental quantity. (at) The degree with which a quality is po e ed. perfection which consists in the presence all that There is also another quantity improperly so call'd, which consists not in the extension of parts, but in the perfection and vertue of every thing. Hence uses it to be call'd the quantity of perfection and quantity of vertue. For the e ential perfections of things and vertues are compos'd of divers degrees, as the quantity of a heap or mole of several parts. This, because diff us'd almost through all the categories, uses to be call'd a transcendental quan tity. Burgersdicius , tr. by a Gentleman (1697), 1. v. 2. (0) The value of a transcendental function. - Transcendental reality. Same as absolute reality (which see, under absolute ). -Transcendental reflection, the faculty by which, according to Kant, we are immediately aware of the faculty which has furnished a concept, whether sense or understanding. See reflection . - Transcendental relation, schema, surface, etc. See the nouns.Transcendental synthesis, a synthesis performed by the mind which occurs without reference to the nature of the intuitions, but refers merely to their spatial or temporal form. - Transcendental topic, the doctrine of transcendental places. Transcendental truth. (a) The conformity of an object to the logical principle of consistency. (b) A first principle. - Transcendental unity, a unity brought about by the mind's action in cognition. II. n. A transcendent conception, such as thing, something, one, true, good. transcendentalism (tran-sen-den tal-izm), n. [