supersensible

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The kinds of truth communicable in mystical ways, whether these be sensible or supersensible, are various.

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  1. adjective Beyond or above perception by the senses.

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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
  • This is the realm of the "supersensible" categories of value and abstract labour. —  Roughtheory.org
  • 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
  • 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
  • For the spiritual events themselves are supersensible, and images which are reminiscent of the physical world are not themselves of a spiritual nature, but only an illustration of spiritual things. —  Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums. English
 

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/sjupərˈsɛnsɪbl/
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