sensationistn.adj.

1801 Ann. Reg. 1800 (Otridge ed.) Hist. Europe 225/1 Between lord Bacon and his followers, on the one hand, and those whom we shall call the sensationists, on the other.

1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. ix. 277 Now most believers in the ego make the same mistake as the associationists and sensationists whom they oppose.

1922 G. E. Hodgson Eng. Mystics ii. 82 In essence the sensationist claims that all our experience arises out of and is confined to ‘sense’.

1942 E. G. Boring Sensation & Perception i. 4 An empiricist is apt to be a sensationist, because it is by way of the senses that the mind has experience of the external world.

2014 P. Camp First Frame iv. 130 Condillac, a more doctrinaire sensationist than Locke had been.

1857 Morning Courier & N.-Y. Enquirer 23 Nov. 2/1 One sensationist produces an estimate of $400,000,000, based upon the cost of the Seminole war.

1868 Good News July 32/1 Its broad and even reckless generalizations..have constituted a mine which the sensationists of New York..have very successfully worked.

1859 Lowell (Mass.) Daily Citizen & News 4 Jan. Spurgeon, the London sensationist preacher.

1870 Amer. Entomologist 2 92/1 A paragraph such as this,..published by a sensationist Editor.

1915 Sat. Rev. 7 Aug. 127/2 The war has been tame from a sensationist point of view.

2014 Morning Bull. (Rockhampton, Queensland) (Nexis) 29 Sept. 42 The photos were accompanied by sensationist type headlines.

1868 Sixpenny Mag. Apr. 42 A sensationist or materialist philosophy has appeared to extinguish the yearning of the spirit of man after the highest truth.

1896 Dublin Rev. Oct. 119 Here we have the Sensationist theory neatly stated.

1916 Mind 16 109 Whether we treat these facts as so many isolated items of knowledge (as the sensationist philosophy does).

1953 K. Britton J. S. Mill vi. 192 From Locke to James Mill, there continued a complicated debate about the way in which we know physical objects; Reid and Hamilton providing an intelligent opposition to the sensationist school.

2008 I. S. Brodey Ruined by Design 13 Sensationist thinkers such as Condillac..attempt to confound various sources of arbitrary power.

1899 J. H. Bell With what Right Kant's Critique Pure Reason called Theory Experience? 6 He laid stress upon sense-perception and experience, and so gave rise to the idealistic-sensationistic controversy.

1936 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. July 97 The agreement, in principle, to discard the sensationistic hypothesis.

2006 Global Broadcast Database: Fox News at 5 27 Jan. (Nexis) The group would not go on camera but says finger pointing at video games may be sensationistic but it is silly, absurd and defies common sense.