Definition of "supersensible" [su•per•sen•si•ble]

• Beyond or above perception by the senses. (adjective)

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• "Like other "supersensible" categories, capital haunts the empirically observable process of commodity circulation - a social spectre with no body of its own. 1 Marx describes a plausible empiricist reaction from the perspective of commodity circulation to capital's apparently mysterious, occult qualities:"
• "It is for this reason that Marx describes it as a "supersensible" property - something whose existence can be intuited by reason, but which is not immediately accessible to synchronic sense-perception alone."
• "This is the realm of the "supersensible" categories of value and abstract labour."