- Necessary prior condition - Requirement - Stipulation - Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to
any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success. - Something previously required, or necessary to an end
or effect proposed.
- End or termination - Summary - What might be drawn in the end - The last part of anything; close; termination; end. - Final decision; determination; result. - Any inference or result of reasoning. - The inferred proposition of a syllogism; the necessary
consequence of the conditions asserted in two related propositions
called premises. See Syllogism.
- Supereminent; surpassing others; as,
transcendental being or qualities. - In the Kantian system, of or pertaining to that
which can be determined a priori in regard to the fundamental
principles of all human knowledge. What is transcendental, therefore,
transcends empiricism; but is does not transcend all human knowledge,
or become transcendent. It simply signifies the a priori or necessary
conditions of experience which, though affording the conditions of
experience, transcend the sphere of that contingent knowledge which is
acquired by experience. - Vaguely and ambitiously extravagant in
speculation, imagery, or diction.