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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
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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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.