transcendentalist
/tran-sen-den-tl-iz-uhm, -suhn-/US // ˌtræn sɛnˈdɛn tlˌɪz əm, -sən- //UK // (ˌtrænsɛnˈdɛntəˌlɪzəm) //
超验主义者,超验主义者,超验者,超验主义
Definitions
n.名词 noun
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- : transcendental character, thought, or language.
- : Also called transcendental philosophy. any philosophy based upon the doctrine that the principles of reality are to be discovered by the study of the processes of thought, or a philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical: in the U.S., associated with Emerson.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as inidealist
Synonyms
Examples
As an old story goes: The New England transcendentalist Margaret Fuller was given to exclaiming, “I accept the universe!”
Carlyle is described as a 'transcendentalist'—a kind of qualified equivalent to intuitionist.
Proof seems to him, as it did to the contemporary Transcendentalist philosophers, an impertinence.
He was then an incipient Transcendentalist, and he did not fail to discover in me the seeds of the same plant.
The transcendentalist believes his ideas to be self-transcendent only because he finds that in fact they do bear fruits.
There are passages in his Concord diary in which he refers to the itinerant transcendentalist in no very sympathetic manner.
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