Meaning of transphenomenal | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

especially, not-comparable

Examples

“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 "consciousness," the sensible or "felt" and particular product, and "self-consciousness," the universal and conditioning process⟳.”

“Yet, inconsistently but fortunately, Kant does repeatedly refer⟳, in the Critique of Judgment, to a trans-phenomenal realm.”

“But over what transphenomenal imperfections does the immortal soul continue⟳ to triumph on and on and on? Is Kant also postulating transphenomenal inclinations?”

“Now even that basic finite distinction of a subject which knows and an object which is known, that apparent essential for human knowledge, fades into a more ^([sic]) transphenomenal or transcendental wisdom.”

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