sensory pleasure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsensoryandpleasure
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sensory
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈsen.sər.i/us/ˈsen.sər.i/
connected with the physical senses of touch, smell, taste, hearing, ...
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pleasure
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈpleʒ.ər/us/ˈpleʒ.ɚ/
enjoyment, happiness, or satisfaction, or something that ...
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(Definition ofsensoryandpleasurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsensory pleasure
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His pen made mathematics asensorypleasurefor all to pursue regardless of their ability to plot the parabolic path a particular curve might take.
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Crucially, our analysis of 'taking pleasure in' must avoid the sort of open question argument that applies to bare attitudinal analyses ofsensorypleasure.
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Definingsensorypleasurein terms of attitudinal pleasure solves all sorts of problems in addition to the heterogeneity problem.
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For example, compare two lives which contain the same amount ofsensorypleasure, but differ with respect to when the pleasure occurs.
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I said that a person hassensorypleasureat a time if he has some sensation in which he takes intrinsic attitudinal pleasure.
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I distinguished betweensensorypleasureand attitudinal pleasure.
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I said that a feeling counts as asensorypleasureif the one who feels it takes intrinsic attitudinal pleasure in the fact that he is then feeling it.
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On a smaller scale, consider two portions of a life, say a couple of weeks long, containing the same amount of sensory pain (and little or nosensorypleasure).
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This was the beginning of a still-active line of research: first, onsensorypleasure, then, on other pleasures like taste: then, on phenomena like earning money or enjoying poetry.
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Feldman analysessensorypleasurein terms of attitudinal pleasure.
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Feldman has dealt with the heterogeneity problem and many others by analysingsensorypleasure, not in terms of desires, but in terms of another sort of pleasure - attitudinal pleasure.
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They are drawn tosensorypleasure, sometimes without thought for the consequences.
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Likewise, happiness subdivides intosensorypleasure, satisfaction, and joy which each have specific bodily responses.
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This value cannot derive from earthly goods (sensory pleasures, human love, etc.), however.
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So though they are all very different from each other, what sensory pleasures have in common is that we have a pro-attitude to them.
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The classical statue was elevated, static, monumental, and distant, whereas the festive, grotesque body was multiple, teeming, part of a throng, a subject of sensory pleasures and physical mobility.
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Additionally, a skull, an hourglass or pocket watch, a candle burning down or a book with pages turning, would serve as a moralizing message on the ephemerality of sensory pleasures.
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