Definitions
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- adjective Not
sapient .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Cruelty to nonsapient animals is definitely not an issue I associate with creeping fascism.
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To the nonsapient animal, every experience is either totally novel or identical with some remem-bered experience.
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Ruth Ortheris is doing the same, only she's working on the line of instinct and conditioned reflexes and nonsapient, single-stage rea'soning.
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"Association of otherwise dissimilar things because of some ap-parent similarity is a recognized element of nonsapient animal behav-ior."
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'T we depict sapient mentation as an iceberg, we might depict nonsapient mentation as the sunlight reflected from its surface.
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The nonsapient mind deals exclusively with crude sensory ma. 'terial.
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This is a considerably less exact analogy; while the nonsapient mind deals, consciously, with nothing but present sense data, there is a consid-erable absorption and re-emission of subconscious memories.
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When confronted by some entirely novel situation, a nonsapient animal will think, but never consciously.
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"Do you mean that nonsapient animals aren't conscious, or do you mean they don't think?"
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"Dr. Mallin," the oldest of the three judges, who sat in the middle, began, "what, in your professional opinion, is the difference between sapient and nonsapient mentation?"
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