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metempiric
metempiric (mɛtɛmˈpɪrɪk) [f. meta- + empiric. Introduced, together with the related words, by G. H. Lewes in 1874.] 1. (Also metempirics with sing. construction: cf. metaphysic, metaphysics.) The philosophy of things that lie outside the sphere of knowledge derived from experience. The writers quote...
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metempiricist
metempiricist (mɛtɛmˈpɪrɪsɪst) [Formed as prec. + -ist.] = metempiric n. 2.1874 Lewes Probl. Life & Mind Ser. i. I. 28 note, The distinction between the empiricist and metempiricist. 1874 ― in Contemp. Rev. XXIV. 689 This is the empirical standpoint. It is of course disputed by metempiricists.
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Alfred Barratt
His second book, Physical Metempiric, was published posthumously in 1883. Physical Metempiric
Baratt's Physical Metempiric was left in a "very imperfect state."
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metempiricism
metempiricism (mɛtɛmˈpɪrɪsɪz(ə)m) [f. metempiric + -ism.] Metempirical philosophy.1882 in Ogilvie.
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metempirical
metempirical, a. (mɛtɛmˈpɪrɪkəl) [f. meta- + empirical.] Pertaining to matters outside the range of knowledge derived from experience. Also, of opinions and their advocates: Maintaining the validity of concepts and beliefs based otherwise than on experience.1874 Lewes Probl. Life & Mind Ser. i. I. 1...
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noumenal
noumenal, a. (ˈnuːmənəl, ˈnaʊ-) [f. noumen-on + -al1. So F. nouménal.] Relating to, consisting of, noumena; that can only be apprehended by intuition; not phenomenal.1803 Edin. Rev. I. 262 Himself, however, the sole exception in nature, he knows in objective noumenal reality. 1830 Coleridge Lett. (1...
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supersensible
superˈsensible, a. (n.) [super- 4 a.] a. That is above the sensible; beyond what is perceptible by the senses.1798 A. F. M. Willich Elem. Crit. Philos. 180 The supersensible substratum of nature is that object, of which we can determine nothing in an affirmative sense. 1828–32 Webster (citing Murdoc...
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metalogical
metalogical, a. (mɛtəˈlɒdʒɪkəl) [f. meta- + logical.] Belonging to metalogic. Also, beyond or outside the province of logic. Cf. prec.1865 S. H. Hodgson Time & Space 345 Chapter vii, Metalogical. 1873 Contemp. Rev. XXI. 446 Certain logical, metalogical, empirical and transcendental truths. a 1881 A....
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unprovable
unˈprovable, a. [un-1 7 b.] 1. Incapable of being proved.c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. ix. xix. 2042 Eftyr þat he had beyn..in exile Be fenȝheid fals suspicion, And all wnprowabil be resson. 1553 N. Grimalde Cicero's Offices ii. (1556) 65 So we, dissenting from them, do saie again some thinges be prouable, s...
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quantifiable
▪ I. quantifiable, a. (ˈkwɒntɪˌfaɪəb(ə)l) [f. quantify v. + -able.] That may be conceived or treated as a quantity; that may be measured with regard to quantity.1883 A. Barratt Phys. Metempiric p. xxv, Those mutual relations of conscious centres which are measurable and quantifiable. 1893 Athenæum 1...
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solipsism
solipsism Metaph. (ˈsɒlɪpsɪz(ə)m) [f. L. sōl-us alone + ipse self.] The view or theory that self is the only object of real knowledge or the only thing really existent. Also, = egoism 1, and in weakened sense.1874 A. C. Fraser Sel. from Berkeley 47 Ueberweg suggests that Berkeley's reasoning implies...
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verifiability
verifiability (ˌvɛrɪfaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ) [f. next + -ity.] a. The fact of being verifiable.a 1881 A. Barratt Physical Metempiric (1883) p. xxv, I cannot believe that the test of sensible verifiability will ever satisfy the higher longings..of humanity. 1893 F. Adams New Egypt 234 Doubts..as to the verifiabi...
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MS.
MS.1 abbreviation of manuscript (L. manu scriptum). Formerly also MS{supt}, erron. MSS{supt}. The form MSS. is used for the pl. manuscripts; by some writers also (after the custom in mod.Latin) for manuscript adj. when agreeing with a plural n.1670 Blount Glossogr. (ed. 3), M.S. stands for manuscrip...
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irresolvable
irresolvable, a. (ɪrɪˈzɒlvəb(ə)l) [ir-2.] Not resolvable. 1. Incapable of being resolved or solved; insoluble.1660 tr. Amyraldus' Treat. conc. Relig. iii. xi. 535 A thing full of spinous questions and irresolvable difficulties. 1708 Brit. Apollo No. 8. 1/2 Your Question is irresolvable. 1883 A. Barr...
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psychoplasm
ˈpsychoplasm (-plæz(ə)m) [f. Gr. ψῡχή soul, mind + πλάσµα anything formed, plasm.] A name for the basis of consciousness conceived as a substance corresponding and correlative to protoplasm. Hence psychoˈplasmic a., pertaining to or of the nature of psychoplasm.1874 Lewes Probl. Life & Mind I. 118 T...
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