📚 noun • entry_id 51232
sensualism
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sensualismo
The doctrine that all knowledge not only originates in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism.
1858, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 1, Gottfried Wilhem von Leibnitz, He [Locke] repudiated any supposed dowry of original truths or innate or connate ideas, and endeavored t…
For Sensualism the only source of human knowledge is sensation: everything reduces to transformed sensations.
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