Complete Definition of "transcendentalist"

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Noun
transcendentalist (singular); plural transcendentalists
#One who believes in transcendentalism.
#A group of philosophers who assert that true knowledge is obtained by faculties of the mind that transcend sensory experience; those who exalt intuition above empirical knowledge and ordinary mentation. Used in modern times of some post-Kantian German philosophers, and of the school of Emerson.

Related terms
Transcendentalism

See also
Wikibooks: wikibooks:Transcendentalist Theology|Transcendentalist Theology

Category:Religion

vi:transcendentalist

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