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antitranscendentalism

antitranscendentalism noun: a position that opposes transcendentalism.

Noun

antitranscendentalism (uncountable)

  1. A position that opposes transcendentalism.
    • The positivist is driven to either "pure facts" or "pure formulas" by his antitranscendentalism of the dogmatic variety.1990, Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya, Anthropology and Historiography of Science, page 120
    • One hitch here is that this deflationary attitude and extreme anti-transcendentalism might appear to paint Quine's naturalism into a corner.2019, Robert Sinclair, Science and Sensibilia by W. V. Quine: The 1980 Immanuel Kant Lectures

Forms of antitranscendentalism

alternative formanti-transcendentalism

Origin of antitranscendentalism

From anti- + transcendentalism.

Questions about antitranscendentalism

What does antitranscendentalism mean?
Antitranscendentalism means a position that opposes transcendentalism.
What part of speech is antitranscendentalism?
Antitranscendentalism is a noun.

Words near antitranscendentalism in the dictionary

  1. antitragicus
  2. antitragus
  3. antitrailer
  4. antitrain
  5. antitrans
  6. antitranscendentalism
  7. antitransform
  8. antitransforms
  9. antitransgender
  10. antitransglutaminase
  11. antitransit

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