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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
  1. the act of surpassing usual limits
  2. the state of being beyond the range of normal perception
  3. the state of being free from the constraints of the material world, as in the case of a deity

See also

  • Transcendence (philosophy), climbing or going beyond some philosophical concept or limit
  • Transcendence (religion), the concept that God is a being who is entirely above the created universe.
  • Transcendentalism, a philosophical movement that advocates that there is an ideal spiritual state that 'transcends' the physical and empirical




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