Transcendence Explained
Transcendence, transcendent, or transcendental may refer to:
Mathematics
- Transcendental number, a number that is not the root of any polynomial with rational coefficients
- Algebraic element or transcendental element, an element of a field extension that is not the root of any polynomial with coefficients from the base field
- Transcendental function, a function which does not satisfy a polynomial equation whose coefficients are themselves polynomials
- Transcendental number theory, the branch of mathematics dealing with transcendental numbers and algebraic independence
Music
Literature
Philosophy
- Transcendence (philosophy), climbing or going beyond some philosophical concept or limit
- Transcendentalism, a 19th-century American religious and philosophical movement that advocates that there is an ideal spiritual state that transcends the physical and empirical
- Transcendent theosophy, a school of Islamic philosophy founded by the 17th-century Persian philosopher Mulla Sadra
- Transcendental idealism, a doctrine founded by 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant
- Transcendental realism, a concept put forward by Roy Bhaskar
- Transcendental arguments, a style of philosophical argumentation
- Transcendental phenomenology, a field of phenomenological inquiry developed by Edmund Husserl
- Transcendentals, religious and philosophical properties of being
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