Sentence examples for sensible experience from inspiring English sources

Myth takes the form of a story and represents the imaginative use of materials drawn from sensible experience in order to express a religious meaning surpassing the sensible world.

Thus, the reality of objects external to the mind (objects in space) is guaranteed, because being in space and time is a condition of being an object of sensible experience at all.

Mass and motion, which in this process are taken to be real entities and the first progenitors of all phenomena, are simply the last abstractions of sensible experience, and our emptiest concepts.

But when one has scientific knowledge, or perception, apart from the actualizations of the faculty concerned, he thus 'remembers' (that the angles of a triangle are together equal to two right angles); as to the former, that he learned it, or thought it out for himself, as to the latter, that he heard, or saw, it, or had some such sensible experience of it.

One result of this is that, though beauty remains tied to pleasure, it is not an immediate sensible experience.

Against Strawson ("Replies" 1979) he noted that there was considerable agreement between them: in particular, they both agreed that perceptual judgments contain implications going beyond those carried by a 'strict' account of our sensible experience.

"Forward going, sensible, experienced".

…case, the conception of a reality that lurks behind sensible experiences has to be given up.

"The sensible, experienced politicians that we have spoken to see this for what it is — a highly charged moment in politics that can be resolved through dialogue and political will".

A doctrine of pure states (reine Zustände) is meant to investigate the pre-objectified, pure content independently of the categorial forms that pervade such content in our sensible experiences of fully formed objects (Rickert 1934b, 129).

"Why," asked Mr. Shultz, "don't we elect somebody who is patriotic, competent, sensible, has experience in government and has shown that he can manage well?" He said Mr. Huntsman had greatly impressed people in Singapore, where he was George H.W. Bush's ambassador before he was elected governor, adding that impressing Singaporeans was not easy.