Transcendence
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Transcendence, transcendent, and transcendental are words that refer to an object (or a property of an object) as being comparatively beyond that of other objects. Such objects (or properties) transcend other objects (or properties) in some way.
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Religion
- Transcendence (religion), the concept of being entirely beyond the universe (Not a living being).
- Transcendentals, religious and philosophical properties of being.
- Salvation, the human transcendence of death.
Mathematics
- Transcendental number, a number that is not the root of any polynomial with rational coefficients
- Transcendental element, an element of a field extension that is not the root of any polynomial with coefficients from the base field
- Transcendental function, a function which does not satisfy a polynomial equation whose coefficients are themselves polynomials
- Transcendence theory, the branch of mathematics dealing with transcendental numbers and algebraic independenece
Philosophy
- Transcendence (philosophy), climbing or going beyond some philosophical concept or limit
- Transcendentalism, a 19th-century American religious and philosophical movement that advocates that there is an ideal spiritual state that 'transcends' the physical and empirical
- Transcendent theosophy, a school of Islamic philosophy founded by the 17th-century Persian philosopher Mulla Sadra
- Transcendental perspectivism, a philosophy blending perspectivism and transcendentalism
- Transcendental idealism, a doctrine founded by 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant
- Transcendental realism, a concept stemming from the philosophy of Immanuel Kant
- Transcendental Meditation, a Vedic meditation technique introduced by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
- Transcendental Phenomenology, a field of phenomenological inquiry developed by Edmund Husserl.
- Transcendentals, religious and philosophical properties of being.
Other uses
- Transcendence (novel), a novel by Charles Sheffield
- Transcendent (novel), a science-fiction novel by Stephen Baxter
- Transcendence (novel), a fantasy novel by R.A. Salvatore
- Transcendence (video game), a science-fiction game by George Moromisato.
- Transcendence (Alice Coltrane album), a jazz album by Alice Coltrane
- Transcendence (Crimson Glory album), a heavy metal album by Crimson Glory
- Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race, the longest foot race in the world.
- Transcendence (Segue), an instrumental by progressive metal band Symphony X, from their 2000 album V: The New Mythology Suite
- Transcendental Students, an anarchist student activist group from New York
- Transcendental, an album by UK band To-Mera
- Transcendental Etudes, a series of twelve compositions written for solo piano by Franz Liszt
- Transcendental Aircraft Corporation, founded in 1945 to research tilt-rotor aircraft
- Transcendental Sigil Stone, in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, the highest level of sigil stone available from closing a Gate of Oblivion.
- Transcendental Reunion, a song by country artist Mary Chapin Carpenter, from her 2012 album "Ashes and Roses"
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