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单词 transcendental
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Definition of transcendental in English:

transcendental

adjective ˌtrɑːnsɛnˈdɛnt(ə)lˌtransɛnˈdɛnt(ə)lˌtrænˌsɛnˈdɛn(t)l
  • 1Relating to a spiritual realm.

    (与)精神的或非物质领域(有关)的

    the transcendental importance of each person's soul

    个人灵魂的精神上的重要性。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Today's terrorists increasingly look at their acts of death and destruction as sacramental or transcendental on a spiritual or eschatological level.
    • More broadly it is a ‘successful’ moment of categorical objectification of the original transcendental self-communication of the divine everywhere.
    • Or that communion with God is but a transcendental, emotional state of self-negation and acceptance?
    • I ended up with something like transcendental animistic chaos with stress on the importance if imminent divinity when I was done with it, which has worked well for me so far.
    • These transcendental depictions of spiritual evocation ring true.
    • Some people regard the religious as more spiritual and transcendental persons.
    • It is true that people out of poverty long for something higher, transcendental and spiritual.
    • God for them was the transcendental other that they found in the Bible.
    • What's cool about this idea is that it implies a transcendental, eternal spiritual life.
    • Religious miracles like paranormal claims postulate a nonnatural transcendental realm that allegedly cannot be evaluated by evidence or reason.
    • It does not constitute either a sect or a school of thought, but is rather a spiritual or transcendental practice, which persists despite criticism from orthodox theologians.
    • The spiritual in man may soar in the highest transcendental realms, but man's body is essentially that of an animal.
    • Hindus readily accept as reality transcendental realms of Gods and devas and higher modes of consciousness than that in which we commonly live.
    • Through visual art, he tried to express a transcendental mysticism that he felt he could not fully communicate through music.
    • Isaac's prayer is symbolic of the transcendental spiritual beauty of Judaism.
    • Among those born since 1955 there has been a considerable increase in belief in a transcendental order - a personally concerned God, life after death, miracles, heaven.
    Synonyms
    supernatural, preternatural, transcendent, other-worldly, superhuman, mystical, mystic, spiritual, divine, heavenly, exalted, sublime, ethereal, numinous, transmundane, ineffable
    1. 1.1 Relating to or denoting Transcendentalism.
      超验主义的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The basis of the aesthetic-ethical movement was Kant's transcendental idealism.
      • There are theists in all of these categories (don't know about transcendental idealism or logical positivists), so they all allow for divine intervention of a kind.
      • On the other hand, transcendental empiricism has epistemological implications insofar as knowledge too must be formed in a process of individuation.
      • How should we assess Husserl's transcendental phenomenology?
      • Kant's assertion that transcendental idealism entails empirical realism is difficult to interpret.
  • 2(in Kantian philosophy) presupposed in and necessary to experience; a priori.

    (康德哲学)预先存在于经验的;先验的,超验的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Echoes of the subsequent post-Hegelian criticisms of Kantian transcendental philosophy are found in the early work of Horkheimer and Marcuse.
    • Husserl sees his own transcendental phenomenology as the true heir to Kant's transcendental philosophy.
    • Kant's solution of the problem of God, which regards the concept of God simply as a transcendental postulate of practical reason or a regulative idea, is unacceptable.
    • Eze evidently thinks it very important to emphasize that Kant appealed to his transcendental philosophy and his theory of the a priori to formulate his racial theory.
    • Kant conveyed this point in the idea that consciousness entails a transcendental a priori not capturable by experience or observation.
  • 3Mathematics
    (of a number, e.g. e or π) real but not a root of an algebraic equation with rational coefficients.

    〔数〕(e,π等数字)超越的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Mathematicians had regarded algebraic numbers as, in some sense, simpler than transcendental numbers.
    • Or should they legitimately be applied only to continuous curves susceptible of being expressed by algebraic or transcendental equations?
    • Of the irrational, transcendental numbers, pi seems to get all the attention.
    • Liouville had introduced such numbers as examples of transcendental numbers - real numbers that are not roots of polynomial equations with integer coefficients.
    • In 1851 he published results on transcendental numbers removing the dependence on continued fractions.
    • The very names negative numbers, irrational numbers, transcendental numbers, imaginary numbers, and ideal points at infinity indicate ambivalence.
    1. 3.1 (of a function) not capable of being produced by the algebraical operations of addition, multiplication, and involution, or the inverse operations.
      (函数)超越的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It was decided to concentrate on a three-volume work on the Higher transcendental functions, to be followed by two volumes of tables of integrals.
      • Only the arc lengths of transcendental curves such as the cycloid and the logarithmic spiral had been calculated before this.
      • If fifth-degree polynomials are so hard, what can one do with transcendental functions of a complex variable?
      • I have just finished an extensive treatise on a certain class of transcendental functions to present it to the Institute which will be done next Monday.

Derivatives

  • transcendentalize

  • verb ˌtransɛnˈdɛntəlʌɪzˌtrɑːnsɛnˈdɛntəlʌɪzˌtræn(t)sɛnˈdɛn(t)lˌaɪz
    [with object]
    • Regard as transcendental.

      he is opposed to any move to transcendentalize trauma
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He is also opposed to any move to transcendentalize trauma, thereby neutralizing the moral differences between victims and perpetrators (since everyone is always already traumatized).
      • That immediately transcendentalizes them in two ways.
      • Why transcendentalize the arbitrary confections dreamt up by a particular animal's socio-biotic coding?
  • transcendentally

  • adverb
    • Very often, these images are transcendentally brilliant, particularly those shot in crystalline black and white.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • However, this movie lacks the touch of genius that turns a mere thriller into a transcendentally surreal film.
      • I remained almost transcendentally calm, Christ-like in my turning of the other cheek and Gandhi-like in my restraint from smacking him in the mouth.
      • How can your current beliefs be so transcendentally correct if you yourself recently believed something very different?
      • It is a feature that provides a transcendentally beautiful aspect to the show.
      • In short, what it was like to be transcendentally fatalist in a time when conventional, run-of-the-mill fatalism wasn't enough.

Origin

Early 17th century: from medieval Latin transcendentalis (see transcendent).

Definition of transcendental in US English:

transcendental

adjectiveˌtranˌsenˈden(t)lˌtrænˌsɛnˈdɛn(t)l
  • 1Relating to a spiritual or nonphysical realm.

    (与)精神的或非物质领域(有关)的

    the transcendental importance of each person's soul

    个人灵魂的精神上的重要性。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Hindus readily accept as reality transcendental realms of Gods and devas and higher modes of consciousness than that in which we commonly live.
    • Among those born since 1955 there has been a considerable increase in belief in a transcendental order - a personally concerned God, life after death, miracles, heaven.
    • Today's terrorists increasingly look at their acts of death and destruction as sacramental or transcendental on a spiritual or eschatological level.
    • Isaac's prayer is symbolic of the transcendental spiritual beauty of Judaism.
    • I ended up with something like transcendental animistic chaos with stress on the importance if imminent divinity when I was done with it, which has worked well for me so far.
    • These transcendental depictions of spiritual evocation ring true.
    • It is true that people out of poverty long for something higher, transcendental and spiritual.
    • Through visual art, he tried to express a transcendental mysticism that he felt he could not fully communicate through music.
    • It does not constitute either a sect or a school of thought, but is rather a spiritual or transcendental practice, which persists despite criticism from orthodox theologians.
    • What's cool about this idea is that it implies a transcendental, eternal spiritual life.
    • Some people regard the religious as more spiritual and transcendental persons.
    • Religious miracles like paranormal claims postulate a nonnatural transcendental realm that allegedly cannot be evaluated by evidence or reason.
    • The spiritual in man may soar in the highest transcendental realms, but man's body is essentially that of an animal.
    • God for them was the transcendental other that they found in the Bible.
    • More broadly it is a ‘successful’ moment of categorical objectification of the original transcendental self-communication of the divine everywhere.
    • Or that communion with God is but a transcendental, emotional state of self-negation and acceptance?
    Synonyms
    supernatural, preternatural, transcendent, other-worldly, superhuman, mystical, mystic, spiritual, divine, heavenly, exalted, sublime, ethereal, numinous, transmundane, ineffable
    1. 1.1 Relating to or denoting Transcendentalism.
      超验主义的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • On the other hand, transcendental empiricism has epistemological implications insofar as knowledge too must be formed in a process of individuation.
      • There are theists in all of these categories (don't know about transcendental idealism or logical positivists), so they all allow for divine intervention of a kind.
      • How should we assess Husserl's transcendental phenomenology?
      • Kant's assertion that transcendental idealism entails empirical realism is difficult to interpret.
      • The basis of the aesthetic-ethical movement was Kant's transcendental idealism.
  • 2(in Kantian philosophy) presupposed in and necessary to experience; a priori.

    (康德哲学)预先存在于经验的;先验的,超验的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Eze evidently thinks it very important to emphasize that Kant appealed to his transcendental philosophy and his theory of the a priori to formulate his racial theory.
    • Kant conveyed this point in the idea that consciousness entails a transcendental a priori not capturable by experience or observation.
    • Husserl sees his own transcendental phenomenology as the true heir to Kant's transcendental philosophy.
    • Kant's solution of the problem of God, which regards the concept of God simply as a transcendental postulate of practical reason or a regulative idea, is unacceptable.
    • Echoes of the subsequent post-Hegelian criticisms of Kantian transcendental philosophy are found in the early work of Horkheimer and Marcuse.
  • 3Mathematics
    (of a number, e.g., e or π) real but not a root of an algebraic equation with rational roots.

    〔数〕(e,π等数字)超越的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Mathematicians had regarded algebraic numbers as, in some sense, simpler than transcendental numbers.
    • The very names negative numbers, irrational numbers, transcendental numbers, imaginary numbers, and ideal points at infinity indicate ambivalence.
    • Or should they legitimately be applied only to continuous curves susceptible of being expressed by algebraic or transcendental equations?
    • Liouville had introduced such numbers as examples of transcendental numbers - real numbers that are not roots of polynomial equations with integer coefficients.
    • In 1851 he published results on transcendental numbers removing the dependence on continued fractions.
    • Of the irrational, transcendental numbers, pi seems to get all the attention.
    1. 3.1 (of a function) not capable of being produced by the algebraical operations of addition, multiplication, and involution, or the inverse operations.
      (函数)超越的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I have just finished an extensive treatise on a certain class of transcendental functions to present it to the Institute which will be done next Monday.
      • Only the arc lengths of transcendental curves such as the cycloid and the logarithmic spiral had been calculated before this.
      • If fifth-degree polynomials are so hard, what can one do with transcendental functions of a complex variable?
      • It was decided to concentrate on a three-volume work on the Higher transcendental functions, to be followed by two volumes of tables of integrals.

Origin

Early 17th century: from medieval Latin transcendentalis (see transcendent).

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