In the importance and transcendencyof the definition, the notion of the infinite may compete with that of substance.
The great difficulties, which we meet with in this attempt, show the necessity of deep meditation, and the transcendency of the errors which originate in a wrong understanding of the word infinite when applied to God.
The more a seer or thinker became conscious of the spirituality and transcendency of God, the more he felt the gulf between the infinite Spirit and the world of the senses.
At this point does it not seem as if the quarrel about self-transcendency in knowledge might drop?
But, critically considered, there can be no pointing unless self-transcendency be also allowed.
What then would the self-transcendency affirmed to exist in advance of all experiential mediation or termination, be known-as?
Even if our ideas did in themselves carry the postulated self-transcendency, it would still remain true that their putting us into possession of such effects would be the sole cash-value of the self-transcendency for us.
On pragmatist principles therefore, a dispute over self-transcendency is a pure logomachy.
On the one hand, it denies that such reference implies self-transcendency on the part of any one experience; on the other hand, it claims that experiences point.
In this case there is no self-transcendency implied in the knowing.
The humanist sees all the time, however, that there is no absolute transcendency even about the more absolute realities thus conjectured or believed in.
What would the self-transcendency affirmed to exist in advance of all experiential mediation or termination, be KNOWN-AS?
On pragmatist principles therefore, a dispute over self- transcendency is a pure logomachy.
As I myself understand these authors, we all three absolutely agree in admitting the transcendency of the object (provided it be an experienceable object) to the subject, in the truth-relation.
Hegel had transformed the transcendental world of current opinion, with its personal Deity and personal immortality, into a world of reason; and Feuerbach went a step further, and abolished what he counted the transcendency of reason itself.
There is a false transcendency in it, like that of divinity and monarchy.
There was said to be in the existing political system a false transcendency identical with that of the current religious system.
To my mind such are the greatest of great men, when measured by the transcendency of their doctrine and the service they render to all.
