sensibilia

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noun

Things that can be sensed; stimuli.

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Meanings

nounsensibilia pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyhuman sciencesThings that can be sensed; stimuli.

    It is because their being as sensibilia does not depend upon their being intentional objects for anyone […]

    1988, Ramon M Lemos, Metaphysical Investigations
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    For in the past I have been aware of sensibilia; and I have sensed instances of sensibilia temporally related to one another.

    1950, Winston H F Barnes, The Philosophical Predicament

    Russell also brought in the sense-data sensed by other persons and even unsensed sense-data, to which he gave the name of sensibilia.

    1969, Alfred Jules Ayer, Metaphysics and Common Sense

    Among the things which human beings do are (a) think of sensibilia in their absence, (b) make mental or verbal pictures of sensibilia, […]

    1989, Anthony John Patrick Kenny, The Metaphysics of Mind
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