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Definition of Transeunt
1. Adjective. Of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind.
Definition of Transeunt
1. Adjective. (philosophy of a mental act) Emanant; producing an effect outside of the mind. Compare (term immanent). ¹
2. Adjective. (philosophy) Passing out or operating beyond itself; transitive; opposed to immanent (transient, OED def. 2) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Transeunt
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Transeunt
Literary usage of Transeunt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Space, Time, and Deity: The Gifford Lectures at Glasgow, 1916-1918 by Samuel Alexander (1920)
"All causality being the continuous passage of one motion or set of motions into
a different one is transeunt. and im- Immanent causality is nothing but ..."
2. A Summary of the Roman Civil Law: Illustrated by Commentaries on and ...by Patrick Mac Chombaich De Colquhoun by Patrick Mac Chombaich De Colquhoun (1854)
"... transeunt. Limitation of actions unknown to the older law. ... —Actiones J^uae
ad Heredes et in Heredes transeunt—Actiones Populates— Vindictam ..."
3. Metaphysic: In Three Books, Ontology, Cosmology, and Psychology by Hermann Lotze (1887)
"... a ' transeunt' operation can be banished from our view of the world and replaced
by that of a harmony between independent inner developments of Things. ..."
4. An Introduction to Philosophy by Orlin Ottman Fletcher (1913)
"transeunt Activity. — So far we have represented activity as essentially immanent,
as immediately related to internal changes in reality. ..."
5. Elements of Metaphysics by Alfred Edward Taylor (1903)
"Immanent and transeunt Causality : Consistent Pluralism must deny transeunt Causation
... Both transeunt and immanent Causality are ultimately appearance. ..."
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