Transcendence

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Transcendence, transcendent or transcendental may refer to:

Religion

• Transcendence (religion), the aspect of a god wholly independent of the material universe
• Transcendentals, religious and philosophical properties of being

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
• Transcendental number theory, the branch of mathematics dealing with transcendental numbers and algebraic independence

Philosophy

• Transcendence (philosophy), climbing or going beyond some philosophical concept or limit
• Transcendental Meditation, a meditation technique introduced by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• 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 put forward by Roy Bhaskar
• Transcendental arguments, a style of philosophical argumentation
• Transcendental phenomenology, a field of phenomenological inquiry developed by Edmund Husserl
• Transcendentals, religious and philosophical properties of being

Media

Other

• Transcendental Aircraft Corporation, founded in 1945 to research tiltrotor aircraft
• Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race, the longest foot race in the world
• Transcendental whistling, a Daoist technique of long-drawn whistling that functioned as a yogic breath exercise

See also

• Transcend (disambiguation)