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transcendentalism

tran.scen.den.tal.ism \-*l-.iz-*m\ \-*l-*st\ n 1: a philosophy that 
   emphasizes the a priori conditions of knowledge and ex perience or the 
   unknowable character of ultimate reality or that emphasizes the 
   transcendent as the fundamental reality 2: a philosophy that asserts the 
   primacy of the spiritual and transcendenta l over the material and 
   empirical - tran.scen.den.tal.ist ajor ;n