sensistn.adj.

1822 European Mag. & London Rev. Mar. 211/1 The second of these classes [of writers]..approaches nearer to the sensists than to the intellectualists.

1850 Brownson's Q. Rev. Apr. 181 They..reach..the very error of the sensists, which they proposed to avoid.

1883 G. S. MacWalter Life A. Rosmini Serbati I. xiv. 216 Many wily agents spread the pernicious tenets of the sensists.

1916 Monist 26 175 Pure intuition is knowledge, but not in the mechanical sense given to this word by sensists.

1976 M. G. Purcell in D. Batty Knowl. & its Organization 24 Sensists hold that between sense perception and intellectual concept, there is no essential difference.

2012 A. Ricciardi After La Dolce Vita ii. 99 Leopardi is a direct descendent of eighteenth-century rationalists and sensists.

1850 Brownson's Q. Rev. Apr. 181 The sensist philosophy..really denied all knowledge by denying all cognitive subject.

1874 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 786 The phenomena of Cosmical Evolution are presented by the sensist school in terms of matter and force.

1936 Philosophy 11 479 He sympathized with the French sensist and materialistic doctrines, yet without identifying himself definitely with them.

1984 W. M. Shea Naturalists & Supernatural iii. 81 A set of Humean sensist postulates as a foundation for philosophy.

2014 F. Bregoli Mediterranean Enlightenm. iii. 75 On the shelves of Attias's library, mathematical abstraction went hand in hand with sensist materialism.

1856 H. F. Brownson tr. J. L. Balmes Fund. Philos. II. iv. xii. 58 Would any sensistic scruple [Sp. ningún escrúpulo sensualista] have prevented Condillac from admitting the synthesis of the imagination?

1882 Fortn. Rev. July 18 A sensistic philosophy, which, by circumscribing the natural powers of the mind within the narrowest limits, left indefinite room for authority.

1917 America 5 May 96/1 Pragmatism is sensistic, individualistic, nominalistic, subjectivistic, [etc.].

2013 F. D'Intino in K. Baldwin et al. tr. G. Leopardi Zibaldone Introd. p. xxxv Leopardi shares the sensistic principle of the correspondence between the physical and the moral.