a. Also transubjective. [TRANS- 4.] That transcends or is beyond subjective or individual experience as such.
1887. R. Adamson, in Mind, Jan., 127. Pure, mere experience is simply such knowledge as the subject directly has of his own subjective processes. Anything else shows itself on the slightest analysis to contain trans-subjective reference or trans-subjective elements.
1899. Jas. Ward, Naturalism & Agn., II. 170. The sun as transubjective object is not L’s sun or M’s sun or N’s sun … but rather what is common to them all, neglecting what is peculiar to each.
1902. T. Case, in Encycl. Brit., XXX. 668/1. Froin this epistemology he derives the metaphysical conclusion that the things we know are indeed independent of my consciousness and of yours, taken individually, or, to use a new phrase, are ‘trans-subjective.’
1911. Jas. Ward, Realm of Ends, vi. 124. By intersubjective intercourse [men] attain to the trans-subjective or truly objective, both in knowledge and in action.
