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SENSATIONALISM

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 648 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SCY-SHA
SENSATIONALISM , in
psychology
 , the theory that all know-ledge comes from sensation (see
PSYCHOLOGY
 ). Thus Aristippus the Cyrenaic held that there could be no knowledge
save
  that which the senses give, but the Stoics, while finding the origin of knowledge in the senses, do not restrict it to this. Sensationalism in
modern
  times is chiefly associated with
Hobbes
 ,
Locke
 , Hume and the
French
  philosophers of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Condillac and others. In its extreme sense it has rarely been held, and is practically abandoned by
modern
  philosophers on the plain ground that a sensation as such lasts only as
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 EMPIRICISM, PHENOMENON, &c.).
The
term
  has also come into colloquial use for the practice of appealinge.g. in art, literature and especially in journalismsolely to the emotions, disregarding proportion and fact.


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