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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 648 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SENSATIONALISM , in See also:

psychology, the theory that all know-ledge comes from sensation (see PSYCHOLOGY). Thus See also:Aristippus the Cyrenaic held that there could be no knowledge See also:save that which the senses give, but the See also:Stoics, while finding the origin of knowledge in the senses, do not restrict it to this. Sensationalism in See also:modern times is chiefly associated with See also:Hobbes, See also:Locke, See also:Hume and the See also:French philosophers of the Enlightenment, See also:Voltaire, See also:Condillac and others. In its extreme sense it has rarely been held, and is practically abandoned by modern philosophers on the See also:plain ground that a sensation as such lasts only as See also:long as the stimulus is applied. Any connexion of sensation is some-thing over and above sensation, and without this connexion there can be no knowledge (see See also:EMPIRICISM, PHENOMENON, &c.). The See also:term has also come into colloquial use for the practice of appealing—e.g. in See also:art, literature and especially in journalism—solely to the emotions, disregarding proportion and fact.

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