| 单词 | sense impulse |
| 释义 | > as lemmassense impulse sense impulse n. (a) Philosophy the impulse or desire for sensory pleasure (now historical); (b) a nerve impulse transmitted from a sense cell to the brain. ΚΠ 1856 J. H. Seelye tr. A. Schwegler Hist. Philos. in Epitome xvii. 234 The mind as theoretical and cognitive is..ruled by the objective and sensible world.., yet as practical does it go wholly beyond the given (the sense impulse [Ger. den sinnlichen Trieb]), and is determined only through the categorical imperative. 1896 L. T. Hobhouse Theory of Knowl. ii. 56 A felt total impression resulting from the forty separate sense-impulses. 1959 H. C. Sandbeck Nature & Destiny ii. ii. 103 Each sensory nerve transmits only sense-impulses of a special kind. 2006 R. A. Makkreel in K. Haakonssen Cambr. Hist. 18th Cent. Philos. I. xviii. 551 To become truly civilised, we must be able to balance the sense impulse, which desires variety of content, with the form impulse of reason, which desire unity. < as lemmas |
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