sensualistic
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It remained for the Scottish school under Thomas Reid to combat both the sensualistic philosophy of Voltaire and Locke, and the skepticism of Hume.
From The Interdependence of Literature by Georgina Pell Curtis
We fear that even the confession of sensualistic atheism by Solovieff will not prevent his memory from being cherished by thousands of his countrymen.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various
All there in that old world, lit "by the strong vertical light" of Homer's genius, is healthful, sharply-defined, tangible, definite, and sensualistic.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various
It's only too easy to write for those avid of sentimentalism, or to express what Thomas Huxley calls "sensualistic caterwauling."
From Unicorns by James Huneker
I will not seek whether the sensualistic metaphysics can arrive at an infinite being, author of the universe and man.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin