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What (who) is Sensualism - definition
VIEW IN EPISTEMOLOGY AND COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY THAT PERCEPTIONS UNDERLIE ALL COGNITION; THINKING IS RECOLLECTION, MODIFICATION, ASSOCIATION,AND COMPARISON OF PERCEPTIONS
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Sensualism
·noun The regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest good.
II. Sensualism ·noun The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.
III. Sensualism ·noun The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism.
Sensualism
In epistemology, Sensualism is a doctrine whereby sensations and perception are the basic and most important form of true cognition. It may oppose abstract ideas.
Sensist
·noun One who, in philosophy, holds to sensism.
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Sensualism
In epistemology, Sensualism is a doctrine whereby sensations and perception are the basic and most important form of true cognition. It may oppose abstract ideas.
This ideogenetic question was long ago put forward in Greek philosophy (Stoicism, Epicureanism) and further developed to the full by the British Sensualists (John Locke, David Hume) and the British Associationists (Thomas Brown, David Hartley, Joseph Priestley). In the 19th century it was very much taken up by the Positivists (Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Hippolyte Taine, Émile Littré)
