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sensibilia

sensibilia

English

Noun

sensibilia pl (plural only)

  1. (philosophy) Things that can be sensed; stimuli.
    • 1950, Winston H F Barnes, The Philosophical Predicament
      For in the past I have been aware of sensibilia; and I have sensed instances of sensibilia temporally related to one another.
    • 1969, Alfred Jules Ayer, Metaphysics and Common Sense
      Russell also brought in the sense-data sensed by other persons and even unsensed sense-data, to which he gave the name of sensibilia.
    • 1988, Ramon M Lemos, Metaphysical Investigations
      It is because their being as sensibilia does not depend upon their being intentional objects for anyone...
    • 1989, Anthony John Patrick Kenny, The Metaphysics of Mind
      Among the things which human beings do are (a) think of sensibilia in their absence, (b) make mental or verbal pictures of sensibilia,...

Latin

Adjective

sensibilia

  1. nominative neuter plural of sensibilis
  2. accusative neuter plural of sensibilis
  3. vocative neuter plural of sensibilis