1. A property that belongs to a being (in Latin, ens) as such and, therefore, transcends all the classes into which being can be divided. The list of properties standardly proposed as transcendentals includes one, good, true, thing, something, and beauty. Although most accept the first three as transcendentals, there is debate about the legitimacy of the last three as transcendentals. 2. In a more extended sense, transcendental is used to refer to other transgeneric realities beyond the aforementioned classic list of transcendentals.  For example, certain philosophers will speak of “disjunctive transcendentals” (e.g., being is disjunctively either actual or potential).  Other non-disjunctive transcendentals have also been recognized by various philosophers.  For example, “transcendental quantity” refers to the use of quantitative notions to designate qualities as though their similarity and dissimilarity could be translated quantitatively.  Also see the discussion of “transcendental relation” in the entry for relation.