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transcendentalism | x |

As a noun transcendentalism

is the transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

transcendentalism

English

Noun

  • The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
  • Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.
  • A philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality (associated with Kant); philosophy which stresses intuition and spirituality (associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson); transcendental character or quality.
  • A movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths.

    • Related terms

    * philosophy * religion * transcendental * transcendentalist

    See also

    * ("transcendentalism" on Wikipedia) * Wikibooks: English words suffixed with -ism

    x

    Translingual

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    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

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