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The state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits
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transcendence
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Transcendence \Tran*scend"ence\ (-ens), Transcendency \Tran*scend"en*cy\ (-en*s[y^]), [Cf. L. transcendentia, F. transcendance.] The quality or state of being transcendent; superior excellence; supereminence. The Augustinian theology rests upon the transcendence ...
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In religion , transcendence refers to the aspect of a god's nature and power which is wholly independent of the material universe, beyond all physical laws. This is contrasted with immanence , where a god is said to be fully present in the physical world ...
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n. a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience [syn: transcendency ] the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits [syn: transcendency , superiority ]
Usage examples of transcendence.
And in every direction she could see the awareness of the Transcendence elaborating, multiplying, exponentiating, its vast intellect growing as she watched.
Do we not recognize here an echo of that same metaphysically grounded sense of a coincidence and transcendence of opposites that we have already found symbolized in the figures of Satan in Hell, Christ on the cross, and the moth consumed in the flame?
It was an attempt at pure Ascent, pure transcendence, pure Reflux, radical detachment.
Buddha and Sangha are violently reduced to flatland objectivist terms, and an approach that originally wishes us to transcend and include, ends up being a merely and purely Descended worldview that effectively blocks transcendence altogether.
Driven by evolutionary telos to mutual understanding and mutual transcendence.
The disciplinary institutions, the boundaries of the effectivity of their logics, and their striation of social space all constitute instances of verticality or transcendence over the social plane.
Going beyond modernity means going beyond the barriers and transcendences of Eurocentrism and leads toward the definitive adoption of the field of immanence as the exclusive terrain of the theory and practice of politics.
The army of craftsmen, meteorologists, artists, rhetoricians, futurologists, sun Warlocks, data patterners, intuitionists, vasteners and devasteners, who formed the company and crew of the Solar Array and all its subsidiaries, were flown or radioed away, called to celebrate in the Grand Transcendence.
The Madhyamika by his insistence on the sheer transcendence of the absolute and his refusal to identify it with anything met with in his experience is too abrupt and harsh.
What in the midst of the crisis in the 1920s appeared as transcendence against history, redemption against corruption, and messianism against nihilism now was constructed as an ontologically definite position outside and against, and thus beyond every possible residue of the dialectic.
Though their vehicle of transcendence may be controversial, we must take into account this longing for relatedness, the capacity for the feeling of oneness, the evolution of the human mind to the point where it comprehends and feels and accepts that human beings, because they are related to one another, have claims on one another.
It is a god, a secondary god manifesting before there is any vision of that other, the Supreme which rests over all, enthroned in transcendence upon that splendid pediment, the Nature following close upon it.
During which, hermetically sealed off against the outside world, he meditates on mass man, materialism, and transcendence.
Shaddack might be a Moreau for the age of microtechnology, obsessed with an insane vision of transcendence through the forced melding of man and machine.
Driven by evolutionary telos to mutual understanding and mutual transcendence.