The cosmologies that predominated in Asia Minor in the 6th century bce, for example, distinguished between sensible appearance and a reality accessible only to reason.
Natorp everywhere likens this problematic relation of first-order phenomenality and second-order objectivity to solving for X in an equation.[76] If the solution -set) of X isolution -setfof which thinking is to solve, then the sensible appearance is analogous to the notational cipher, "X," isself, since whatheas-nobject-been-experienced is simply what-has-not-yet-been-constructed.
Something similar can be said about philosophies that take matter to be an entity distinct from sensible appearances, lying behind them and inferred from them.
What modern art understood from the consideration of art nègre is that the issue was not anymore to simply reproduce sensible appearances but to deal with the forces hidden beneath the surface of things.
Brentano suggests that the continuous is brought to appearance by sensible intuition in three phases.
To take up our earlier example, when the astronomer speaks of planets and their laws of motion, he is speaking objectively of scientific phenomena, as opposed to the subjective appearance of sensible phenomena to you or me.
The first phase of deconstruction attacks this belief by reversing the Platonistic hierarchies: the hierarchies between the invisible or intelligible and the visible or sensible; between essence and appearance; between the soul and body; between living memory and rote memory; between mnēmē and hypomnēsis; between voice and writing; between finally good and evil.
Following Gregory of Nyssa, Eriugena holds that the sensible, corporeal, spatio-temporal appearances of things are produced by the qualities or 'circumstances' of place, time, position, and so on, which surround the incorporeal, eternal essence.
Moreover, Kant issues the explicit caveat that he has not been able to "establish the reality of freedom as one of the faculties which contain the cause of the appearances of our sensible world" or even "to prove the possibility of freedom".
In essence the same applies to the spending review, which was invented by Gordon Brown ostensibly to give the appearance of having a sensible long-term economic strategy.
If you're over-weight and think you wanna change that about you for perhaps health reasons more than appearance, go on a sensible diet, but please don't stop eating all together.
