transcendentalist vs wishful thinker

transcendentalist

noun
  • One who believes in transcendentalism. 

  • Any of a group of philosophers who assert that true knowledge is obtained by faculties of the mind that transcend sensory experience; those who exalt intuition above empirical knowledge and ordinary mentation. Used in modern times of some post-Kantian German philosophers, and of the school of Emerson. 

wishful thinker

noun
  • One who engages in wishful thinking. 

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