sensibilia

English

Noun

sensibilia pl (plural only)

  1. (philosophy) Things that can be sensed; stimuli.
    • 1950, Winston H F Barnes, The Philosophical Predicament:
      For in the past I have been aware of sensibilia; and I have sensed instances of sensibilia temporally related to one another.
    • 1969, Alfred Jules Ayer, Metaphysics and Common Sense:
      Russell also brought in the sense-data sensed by other persons and even unsensed sense-data, to which he gave the name of sensibilia.
    • 1988, Ramon M Lemos, Metaphysical Investigations:
      It is because their being as sensibilia does not depend upon their being intentional objects for anyone […]
    • 1989, Anthony John Patrick Kenny, The Metaphysics of Mind:
      Among the things which human beings do are (a) think of sensibilia in their absence, (b) make mental or verbal pictures of sensibilia, […]

Latin

Adjective

sēnsibilia

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of sēnsibilis
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