Word of the Day:
phantasm
What It Means
Something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition.
An impression as received by the senses, especially an image, often prior to any interpretation by the intellect.
Phantasm in Context
“Again, in a sense, the act of understanding as an insight into phantasm is knowledge of form: but the form so known does not correspond to the philosophic concept of form; “insight is to phantasm as form is to matter; […]””
Did You Know?
A learned variant of phantom; from Middle English fantosme, from Old French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma). Doublet of phantom.
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