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sensal, a. Philos. rare.|ˈsɛnsəl|
[f. sense n. + -al1.]
Of or pertaining to sense or meaning (opp. verbal), or to the senses.
a1866J. Grote Treat. Moral Ideals (1876) xxi. 518 Part of our sensal organization. 1896V. Welby in Mind V. 29 We might be allowed to coin a new derivative and speak of ‘sensal’ where we often now speak of ‘verbal’ questions. 1927J. M. E. McTaggart Nature of Existence II. v. xxxviii. 116 We rejected the existence of matter and of sensa, because material and sensal qualities, as ordinarily defined, would not permit the determination, within the substances possessing them, of an infinite series of parts within parts. 1938C. D. Broad Exam. McTaggart's Philos. II. vii. xxxiii. 249, I conclude then that McTaggart's argument against the possibility of extended particulars, whether material or sensal, breaks down at the fourth step in my synopsis of it. |