unexperienceable
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + experienceable.
Adjective
[edit]unexperienceable (not comparable)
- (chiefly philosophy) Incapable of being experienced.
- 1912 January 18, W. P. Montague, “The New Realism and the Old”, in The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, volume 9, number 2, page 45:
- It is at the cost of making the absolute unknowable, of reducing it to the status of the unexperienceable external world of the dualistic realist.
- 2000 Jan, Kevin Schilbrack, “Metaphysics in Dōgen”, in Philosophy East and West, volume 50, number 1, p. 53 n61:
- It is beyond logic, an inconceivable but not unexperienceable unity of opposites.
References
[edit]- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.