| 释义 |
sentience|ˈsɛnʃɪəns|
[f. sentient a.: see -ence.]
The condition or quality of being sentient, consciousness, susceptibility to sensation.
1839Poe Fall House of Usher Tales (1845) 74 This opinion [of Usher's], in its general form, was that of the sentience of all vegetable things. 1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 77 The Sánkhyas use them to prove, that the whole world, every constituent part of which is for an end, has for its author that which possesses no sentience,—nature. a1881A. Barratt Phys. Metempiric (1883) 244 If physical esse is intelligi, and intelligence has been evolved from sentience, clearly physical objective existence has been produced by the ordinary impulse or inherent necessity of evolution. |