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For him, the Enlightenment, with its sensistic, subjectivist attitude and devotion to the act of reasoning, rather than to the light of reason, degenerates inevitably into a hotchpotch of negation and ignorance, leading to radical corruption in ethics, and every other branch of philosophical endeavour.
Antonio Rosmini Cleary, Denis 2001
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His critical examination of the idea of causality issues, in full accordance with his sensistic principles, in sheer scepticism.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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This exclusion of reason from the task and the consequent exaltation of sense above every other faculty of the mind resulted naturally in the sensistic doctrine that all knowledge is feeling (sensus) or sensation, and in the materialistic doctrine that the soul itself is material.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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