Associations to the word «Transcendentalist»

Wiktionary

TRANSCENDENTALIST, noun. One who believes in transcendentalism.
TRANSCENDENTALIST, noun. A group of philosophers who assert that true knowledge is obtained by faculties of the mind that transcend sensory experience; those who exalt intuition above empirical knowledge and ordinary mentation. Used in modern times of some post-Kantian German philosophers, and of the school of Emerson.

Dictionary definition

TRANSCENDENTALIST, noun. Advocate of transcendentalism.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky