Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Above or beyond the reach of the senses; supersensuous. Also used substantively.
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- adjective Not
perceptible by thesenses ; beyond theexperience of thematerial world
Etymologies
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Examples
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For Kant, "the suprasensible destination of all our faculties is the pre-destination of a moral being."
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The state of inspiration in Plato's philosophy is the end of an ascent to the world of Ideas, the suprasensible world of universals.
CREATIVITY IN ART MILTON C. NAHM 1968
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Indeed, unless some such suprasensible and unifying principle were available, phonetic spelling would speedily perish in an infinity of degenerate variations.
Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge Alexander Philip
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Besides, abstinence exercises a salutary influence in leading man to suprasensible pursuits.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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It is of course presupposed that the suprasensible can be known and that the limits of experience pure and immediate can be transcended.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Catholic philosophy does not deny the soul's spontaneous life, the sublimity of its suprasensible and supernatural operations, and the inadequacy of words to translate its yearnings.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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School of Jacobi taught that our reason is able to perceive the suprasensible.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Kantism (by agnosticism is meant the philosophy which denies that reason, used at any rate in a speculative and theoretical way, can gain true knowledge of suprasensible things).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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He sees, he feels, he hears, he tastes, he touches this something, this phenomenon that comes and goes without telling him aught of the existence of a suprasensible, absolute and unchanging reality outside all environing space and time.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Its determining reason is perhaps situated in "the suprasensible substratum of humanity."
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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