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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Transcendentalism

· Tran·scen·den·tal·ism · IPA
01 n. The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
  1. 1.
    The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.(Kantian Philos.)
  2. 2.
    Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.