单词 | supersensible |
释义 | supersensibleadj.n. Philosophy. A. adj. Transcending the senses; that is above or beyond what is perceptible by the senses. Cf. earlier supersensual adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > ability to be perceived by senses > [adjective] > (naturally) imperceptible to senses unperceptiblea1398 unperceivable?a1475 imperceptible1536 undiscernable1586 imperceivablea1617 undiscernible1624 occult1650 unperceptable1678 imperceptive1722 supersensible1795 subsensible1858 supersensory1883 the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [adjective] > not perceptible by the senses or beyond the senses unsensiblec1380 insensible1509 imperceptible1536 ungropable1558 untouchable1567 unfeelable1609 unsensive1616 intactible1623 intangible1640 supersensual1647 intactile1660 supersensitive1701 touchless1767 supersensible1795 untangible1816 insensile1822 ungraspable1822 suprasensitive1825 suprasensible1831 suprasensuous1838 subsensual1840 unsensuous1850 supersensational1853 insensuousa1861 1795 P. Will tr. C. Tschink Victim Magical Delusion III. 42 In order to produce and conceive these ideas a supersensible faculty is required. 1798 A. F. M. Willich Elements Crit. Philos. 180 The supersensible substratum of nature is that object, of which we can determine nothing in an affirmative sense. 1847 R. W. Emerson Uses Great Men in Wks. (1906) I. 280 Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map. 1862 J. F. Stephen Ess. Barrister 325 An apparently necessary relation..between the sensible phenomenon and the supersensible reality. a1881 A. Barratt Physical Metempiric (1883) 20 It cannot..give any solidity or reality to a supersensible hypothesis. 1945 B. Russell Hist. Western Philos. i. iii. 37 Mathematics is..the chief source of the belief in..a super-sensible intelligible world. 2001 D. W. Crawford in B. Gaut & D. M. Lopes Routledge Compan. Aesthetics 59 And yet our ability to think of that which is great beyond all comparison must mean we have a supersensible ability. B. n. (With the) that which is supersensible; a supersensible thing. Cf. supersensual n. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > immaterial or incorporeal thing > that which is not perceptible by the senses supersensitive1797 supersensible1798 supersensual1818 supersensuous1818 supersensuous1825 suprasensible1837 1798 tr. I. Kant Ess. & Treat. I. 393 In the immense space of the supersensible [Ger. des Übersinnlichen] that is filled for us with dark night. 1803 Edinb. Rev. 1 254 The glory of illuminating his countrymen in purisms and supersensibles. 1856 D. Masson Ess. Biogr. & Crit. 34 In Shakespeare..there was..a tendency towards the supersensible and invisible. 1881 J. C. Shairp Aspects Poetry iii. 69 So far then poetry and religion are akin, that both hold of the unseen, the supersensible. 1922 M. de Wulf Philos. & Civilization in Middle Ages viii. 183 Because our ideas are derived from the content of sense-perception..the supersensible can be known only by analogy. 1960 M. Adams tr. R. Steiner Speech & Drama ii. x. 231 In the most ancient times men shrank with awe from any direct representation of the supersensible. 2007 C. Cazeaux Metaphor & Continental Philos. ii. 53 The concept which reconciles the supersensibles of nature and freedom..is defined as the process of analogy itself. Derivatives superˈsensibly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [adverb] > beyond the senses supersensually1683 supersensibly1868 1868 A. B. Alcott Tablets 16 A creed dealing thus supersensibly with the elements must have fertilizing properties. 1906 J. H. Hyslop Borderland Psychical Res. vii. 171 I..divide extra-organic hallucinations into those which are sensibly or physically initiated and those which are supersensibly or superphysically initiated. 2006 S. Gardner in G. Bird Compan. Kant iii. xvii. 265 Kant would still be left with the claim that morality affords cognition of supersensibly grounded freedom. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1795 |
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