tran|scen|den|tal|ism

tran|scen|den|tal|ism
tran|scen|den|tal|ism «TRAN sehn DEHN tuh lihz uhm», noun.
1. transcendental quality, thought, language, or philosophy.
2. any philosophy based upon the doctrine that the principles of reality are to be discovered by a study of the processes of thought, not from experience. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason was a chief source of transcendentalism.
3. the religious and philosophical doctrines of Ralph Waldo Emerson and others in New England in the middle 1800's, which emphasized the importance of individual inspiration and had an important influence on American thought and literature.

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