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What is a transcendentalist?

What is a transcendentalist? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One who believes in transcendentalism.
  2. Any of 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.
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That is practical transcendentalism, and you are a transcendentalist.
There was in his character, perhaps, something of the visionary and the transcendentalist.
Is he not a transcendentalist, at least in the German sense of the word?
Kantianism became known in the United States toward 1840 primarily through the New England transcendentalist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson who was not, however, a Kantian himself.
His thoughts are reminiscent of the transcendentalist principles of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, of whom he was a disciple, praising the spiritual, aesthetic and religious value of nature.
He was no transcendentalist, and never meddled with supramundane things.

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