nonsensory

The inference proceeds from a nonsensory and innate idea of God to the existence of that God.

René Descartes Hatfield, Gary 2008

Crary comments that although "the dominance of the camera obscura paradigm does in fact imply a privilege given to vision, it is a vision that is a priori in the service of a nonsensory faculty of understanding that alone gives a true conception of the world" (57).

Introduction: Gothic Romance as Visual Technology 2005

Navigation through this reality occurs through our attention, and nonsensory perception takes place through our activated memory and imagination.

ENTANGLED MINDS DEAN RADIN 2006

Navigation through this reality occurs through our attention, and nonsensory perception takes place through our activated memory and imagination.

ENTANGLED MINDS DEAN RADIN 2006

Navigation through this reality occurs through our attention, and nonsensory perception takes place through our activated memory and imagination.

ENTANGLED MINDS DEAN RADIN 2006

Now his initial suggestion is that there is something problematic about the very idea of a human person's being in cognitive contact (the kind required by warrant) with a nonsensory reality such as God.

Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

Because of this big disanalogy, God is categoreally unsuited to serve as the object of a veridical perception, whether sensory or nonsensory. (pp. 326-27)

Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

Although O'Hear speaks of "personal contact," perhaps his question is best construed in the present context as the question whether religious experience could put us in epistemic contact with a nonsensory reality (i.e., one that can't, ordinarily, be seen, heard, touched, etc.) such as God; and that question, I take it, is the question whether beliefs about such a nonsensory reality could acquire warrant by way of religious experience.

Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

It means the rejection of any form of mysticism, i.e., any claim to some nonsensory, nonrational, nondefinable, supernatural source of knowledge.

The Virtue of Selfishness Rand, Ayn 1961

Even the most ardent pro-lifers, for instance, would acknowledge that a baby born without a brain should not be treated as if it is worthy of a right to life, and few would say it must be connected to a life support system for the duration of its empty, nonsensory life.

Saint Gasoline Saint Gasoline 2009