Meanings
- not comparablerareOf or pertaining to appearency; superficial; apparent; outwardly evident.
And just as important as these appearential codes was the fact that the relationship among the different types of people was very closely regulated by social norms.
1985, David Popenoe, "Private Pleasure, Public Plight: Urban Development, Suburban Sprawl, and the Decline of Community", Transaction Publishers, Page 1181 more example
What I call the appearential inadequacy of perception is the inability, as it were, of any of the possible perceptions of a thing, of a feature of a thing, or more generally, of anything spatially extended, to give that entity directly, without the mediation of an appearance.
1982, William R. McKenna, "Husserl’s Introductions to Phenomenology: Interpretation and Critique", Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, page 67
Origin
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