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Definition of Sensist
1. n. One who, in philosophy, holds to sensism.
Definition of Sensist
1. Noun. One who holds to the philosophy of sensism. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sensist
1. one who indulges in sensationalism [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sensist
Literary usage of Sensist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... in the Middle Ages, as it is possible only in a sensist philosophy that denies
all natural distinction between sensation and the intellectual concept. ..."
2. The Science of Logic: An Inquiry Into the Principles of Accurate Thought and by Peter Coffey (1912)
"THE sensist OR EMPIRICAL VIEW OF CAUSALITY: MILL'S TEACHING.—John Locke (1632-1704)
had taught that causality, or the power to produce change, ..."
3. Life of Antonio Rosmini Serbati, founder of the Institute of charity by Gabriel Stuart MacWalter (1883)
"... as his own daily life demonstrates—What he thinks of the Milanese—The sensist
blotch on the prevailing piety—Vincenzo Monti a representative blotch— ..."
4. Psychology: Empirical and Rational by Michael Maher (1909)
"By judicious management of this new fund, many deficits in the sensist theory
... These considerable improvements, which bring the sensist theory of mental ..."
5. Psychology by Michael Maher (1890)
"These considerable improvements, which bring the sensist theory of mental life more
... It is difficult to see how the fundamental article of the sensist ..."
6. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1905)
"Character V. The Critical Common-sensist will be further distinguished from the old
... The Critical Common-sensist holds that there is less danger to ..."
7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"This sensist philosophy, of course, has had its opponents. Cudworth and the
Cambridge Platonists strove to defend the essential and eternal distinction of ..."
8. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... of knowledge a sensist psychology, latent, perhaps, so far as the consciousness
of the Pragmatist is concerned. For the Pragmatist, although he does not ..."
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