transcendentally
Definition
- Adverb:
- In a manner that goes beyond ordinary limits or experience: Describes an action or quality that surpasses the normal, empirical, or physical world, relating to a priori knowledge or conditions of possibility.
- To a supreme or extraordinary degree: Describes an action or quality that is of the highest, most exceptional, or ultimate nature.
Usage Examples
- Adverb:
- The philosopher argued that the categories of understanding function transcendentally. (The philosopher argued that the categories of understanding operate in a way that is a precondition for experience itself.)
- She was transcendentally beautiful, as if from another world. (Her beauty was of such an extraordinary and supreme degree that it seemed otherworldly.)
Advanced Usage
- Philosophical Context: In Kantian philosophy, "transcendentally" specifically refers to the mode of inquiry that investigates the necessary conditions for the possibility of experience, knowledge, or cognition.
- Kant examines the mind transcendentally, not psychologically. (Kant studies the mind in terms of its fundamental, necessary structures that make experience possible, not in terms of its empirical, psychological processes.)
Variants and Related Words
- Transcendental (adj): Relating to a spiritual or non-physical realm; in philosophy, relating to the conditions of knowledge.
- He was interested in transcendental meditation.
- Transcend (verb): To go beyond the limits of; to surpass.
- Art can transcend cultural barriers.
- Transcendence (noun): The state of excelling, surpassing, or being beyond ordinary limits.
- The transcendence of his musical talent was undeniable.
Synonyms
- Supremely: To the highest degree.
- Metaphysically: In a way that relates to the fundamental nature of reality beyond the physical.
- Exceptionally: To an unusual degree; outstandingly.
Antonyms
- Empirically: In a way based on observation or experience rather than theory.
- Immanently: In a way that is inherent or operating within the material world.
Adverb
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in a transcendental way or to a transcendental extent
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