Meanings
- not comparablehuman sciencesIncapable of being experienced.
It is beyond logic, an inconceivable but not unexperienceable unity of opposites.
2000 Jan, Kevin Schilbrack, “Metaphysics in Dōgen”, in Philosophy East and West, volume 50, number 1, p. 53 n611 more example
It is at the cost of making the absolute unknowable, of reducing it to the status of the unexperienceable external world of the dualistic realist.
1912 January 18, W. P. Montague, “The New Realism and the Old”, in The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, volume 9, number 2, page 45
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishexperienceable
- Englishunexperienceable
From un- + experienceable.
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