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French term or phrase:	donnée sensible
English translation:	sensory information
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5:01pm May 21, 2008

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French term or phrase: donnée sensible

L’approche empirique – l’ « expérience » – permet à l’homme de pénétrer le mystère de la nature « artificielle », en procédant de la ***donnée sensible*** à la loi qui la détermine, pour s’affranchir des enseignements des maîtres du XVe siècle.

A google search reveals this is some sort of philosophy term, but I have no idea what it means nor what the English equivalent is. Please help!

tatyana000

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Melissa McMahon: 12:18am May 22, 2008: Can you say some more about the context of the passage? Journal article? Textbook? Newspaper article? on what topic?
tatyana000: 6:56pm May 22, 2008: This passage is from a scholarly text about Leonardo da Vinci.

sensory information

Explanation:
That is knowledge through the senses, the world as perceived by the senses, or cognizance through perception.

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Euqinimod
France

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3 +4

sensory information

Euqinimod

4 +2

sense data

Richard Benham

sensory knowledge

MatthewLaSon

what is given to the senses

Melissa McMahon

3 -2

sensitive data/information

Katarina Peters

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19 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

sensory information

Explanation:
That is knowledge through the senses, the world as perceived by the senses, or cognizance through perception.

Euqinimod
France
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French
PRO pts in category: 4

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27 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): -2

sensitive data/information

Explanation:
a possibility

Katarina Peters
Canada
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Hungarian,

English
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1 hr confidence:

sensory knowledge

Explanation:
Hello,

This would be more suitable for the register. I don't think that "information" and "data" would be most appropriate in a this context (particulary, "data").

Lots of ghits for this...

I hope this helps.

MatthewLaSon
United States
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English

2 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

sense data

Explanation:
Usual term in philosophy. Whether or not it's an anachronism is neither here nor there.

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PS Pace JT, it's not about 15-century thinkers. It is about some later thinkers (date unspecified) freeing themselves from the dogmata of 15th-century thinkers.

Oh, and it's probably better hyphenated. It is the plural of sense-datum, of course. Merriam-Webster gives this term as dating from 1882; not quite the fifteenth century, but quite old for a philosophical term.

Richard Benham
France
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7 hrs confidence:

what is given to the senses

Explanation:
I very much agree with Richard that sense data is the most common term - this is a less 'terminological' rendition.

Donnée = datum (Latin - data is just the plural - why anachronistic?) = the 'given'.

The key is that it is the material given to the senses rather than what is construed about it by the mind (though this distinction is of course an area of rife debate!).

In the passage you cite, the key seems to be about learning from sense experience rather than from analysing concepts.

Nb. the philosopher being talked about, the kind of text & the audience would be useful to know.

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Note added at 7 hrs (2008-05-22 00:16:20 GMT)
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Nb. "the sensible given" is actually used a fair bit in translations of texts in this area, and is undoubtedly a rendition of this term. It's a transliteration, but has gained a certain currency in the English philosophical community.

Melissa McMahon
Australia
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French: donnée sensible

English translation: sensory information