concept: EPIPHANY

concept-key: https://vernacular.cloud/0.0.3/KG1zLAJ5Nl5udgF3tnUzGvfC/

Definition

The movement to a transcendent, generalized perspective on reality. Liberation, salvation, emancipation, awakening, enlightenment, epiphany, satori, bodhi, apotheosis, nirvana, moksha.

The move up the semantic ladder from ostensive language to metaphorical language. Are the myths a solution to the antinomies.

Broader

• magisterium
• Vernacular Cloud

Narrower

• metaphysics
• percept-notion-concept
• suspension-ostension-transcendence

Related

• enlightenment
• transcendence
• nirvana
• salvation
• metanoia