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Definition of Nonsensuous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonsensuous
Literary usage of Nonsensuous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Classical Philosophers: Selections Illustrating Modern Philosophy by Benjamin Rand (1908)
"... if we ask how it could know an object, not discursively by means of categories,
but intuitively, and yet in a nonsensuous intuition, — a process of ..."
2. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1844)
"4 IV Whitehead considers perception, in this connection, as wider than
sense-perception ; and he emphasizes the importance of nonsensuous perception ..."
3. Outlooks from the New Standpoint by Ernest Belfort Bax (1891)
"... is simply a system of categorised sensations, and that to gratuitously assume
nonsensuous, uncategorised things-in-themselves as existing somewhere or ..."
4. Herbart's ABC of Sense-perception, and Minor Pedagogical Works by Johann Friedrich Herbart (1896)
"On the contrary, the pure concept of the content of a surface is an absolutely
nonsensuous concept, ..."
5. The Doctrine of the Transcendent Use of the Principle of Causality in Kant by Frank Hugh Foster (1882)
"287): "The nonsensuous cause of these representations is wholly unknown to us,
and we cannot therefore have intuition of it as ..."
6. The Idea of God: An Inquiry Concerning the Practical Content of the by James Palmer (1904)
"In content the limitation may be sensuous or nonsensuous, pathetic or antipathetic;
they may either help or hinder the conscious individual. ..."
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