transphenomenal
transphenomenal adjective: of or pertaining to a process, nature, or realm which cannot be directly experienced using such human faculties as conceptualization or perception by means of the five senses.
Adjective
transphenomenal (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to a process, nature, or realm which cannot be directly experienced using such human faculties as conceptualization or perception by means of the five senses.
- We have said that the distinction between phenomena and the trans-phenomenal is founded upon and interwoven with the distinction in our conscious experience, or in the nature and process of knowledge, between sense and the intelligible, or, better, the spiritual conditions of sense, or between...1894, George Sylvester Morris, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: A Critical Exposition, page 193
- Yet, inconsistently but fortunately, Kant does repeatedly refer, in the Critique of Judgment, to a trans-phenomenal realm.1957, Theodore Meyer Greene, Moral, Aesthetic, and Religious Insight, page 87
Forms of transphenomenal
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Origin of transphenomenal
Probably from German transphänomenal
Words formed from transphenomenal
Questions about transphenomenal
- What does transphenomenal mean?
- Transphenomenal means of or pertaining to a process, nature, or realm which cannot be directly experienced using such human faculties as conceptualization or perception by means of the five senses.
- What part of speech is transphenomenal?
- Transphenomenal is an adjective.
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