Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Beyond or above perception by the senses.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Beyond the reach of the senses; above the natural powers of external perception; supersensual: applied either to that which is physical but of such a nature as not to be perceptible by any normal sense, or to that which is spiritual and so not an object of any possible sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Beyond the reach of the senses; above the natural powers of perception.
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- adjective Beyond the range of what is
perceptible by thesenses ; not belonging to theexperienceable physical world.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Such patterns are "supersensible" because they cannot be perceived through direct empirical observation of any particular synchronic moment: they are perpetually out of joint with any given moment of time.
Roughtheory.org 2009
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Such patterns are "supersensible" because they cannot be perceived through direct empirical observation of any particular synchronic moment: they are perpetually out of joint with any given moment of time.
Roughtheory.org 2009
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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.
Roughtheory.org 2009
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This is the realm of the "supersensible" categories of value and abstract labour.
Roughtheory.org 2009
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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:
Roughtheory.org 2009
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"supersensible" patterns that are generated beneath the flux of appearance.
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"supersensible" patterns that are generated beneath the flux of appearance.
Roughtheory.org 2009
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We have seen his answer to the first question: I can know this world as revealed through the senses, but not the total sum of all that is (since the senses never reveal that) nor a world beyond this one (a supersensible world).
Kant's Account of Reason Williams, Garrath 2009
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Their conviction that human reason could acquire knowledge of supersensible entities, including the soul and God, necessitated, in Kant's view, a “critique.”
Kant and Leibniz Wilson, Catherine 2008
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The soul is not a supersensible object of whose faculties and powers we can acquire knowledge but an idea that makes our practice of ascribing experiences to ourselves intelligible.
Kant and Leibniz Wilson, Catherine 2008
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