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Transcendental vs Metaphysical - What's the difference?

transcendental | metaphysical |

As adjectives the difference between transcendental and metaphysical

is that transcendental is concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge, independent of experience while metaphysical is of or pertaining to metaphysics.

As a noun transcendental

is a transcendentalist.

transcendental

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A transcendentalist.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (philosophy) Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge, independent of experience.
  • Superior, surpassing all others.
  • Extraordinary.
  • Mystical or supernatural.
  • (mathematics, number theory) Of, or relating to a number that is not the root of any polynomial that has positive degree and rational coefficients.
  • Antonyms

    * (mathematics) algebraic

    Hypernyms

    * (mathematics) irrational

    Derived terms

    * transcendental ego * transcendental function * transcendentalize * transcendental meditation * transcendental number * transcendentalism

    metaphysical

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to metaphysics.
  • Immaterial, supersensual, not physical (more properly, "beyond" that which is physical).
  • Derived terms

    * metaphysically

    See also

    * transcendental