The term sensualism (from Latin sensus, “sense,” and sensualis, “sensory,” “sensitive”) was coined in the 19th century by Charles de Villers [7. 154]. Initially it denoted a position that was first developed in principle during the early modern period in the epistemology of the 17th century: the view that human knowledge and activity are determined exclusively by sense perceptions. This position was directed against the assumption of contents or structures wi…