The sensationalist is bound to affirm that they have the same origin.
The religion of this great work was deism: the philosophy of it was sensationalist and almost materialist; seeming hardly to allow the existence of anything but mechanical beings.
It is in this sense that the word is usually employed, and has been employed by the Sensationalist School themselves.
In recognising this fact the sensationalist is right in his turn.
His theory of the origin of knowledge may fairly be called an experiential, but it cannot with any truth be called a sensationalist theory.
In deriving our knowledge from two distinct sources, Sensation and Reflection, Locke is advancing a position altogether different from that of what is properly called the Sensationalist school of philosophers.
The other fountain," then, of Locke has, we must recollect, a peculiar significance as distinguishing his psychology from that of the sensationalist writers who preceded and who followed him.
But the motive which has kept the sensationalist at work, which animated Hobbes and Locke, Hume and John Stuart Mill, Voltaire and Diderot, was a human not a scholastic one.
The more the sensationalist appears to succeed in reducing knowledge to the associations of sensation, the more he creates a demand for thought to introduce background and relationship.
These two opposing schools are those which we know as the sensationalist and the intellectualist, the empiricist and the rationalist.
The sensationalist has staked himself upon the possibility of explaining and justifying knowledge by conceiving it as the grouping and combination of the qualities directly given us in sensation.
The sensationalist has played his part in bringing to effective recognition the demand in valid knowledge for individuality of experience, for personal participation in materials of knowledge.
The sensationalist and the rationalist have worked themselves out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sensationalist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
