Definition of "sensism" []

• Sensualism (noun)

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• "Our objection to a good deal of recent logical literature is not based on an unfavourable estimate of its scientific quality: what we object to is the sensism, subjectivism, agnosticism or other philosophical doctrine, which underlies the logical theories of the author."
• "Lambert strove to modify the Aristotelean logic in the direction of empiricism, sensism, or Leibnizian innatism."
• "In his theory of knowledge he advocated individualistic sensism as opposed to Plato's intellectualistic theory of ideas; that is to say, he taught that the sense-perceived individual alone exists and that there are no universal objects of knowledge."