noun
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One who indulges in sensational behavior or action.
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One who believes or espouses the philosophy of sensationalism.
adjective
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Sensationalistic; tending to sensationalize; characterized by sensationalism (the use of exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention).
Examples of sensationalist in a Sentence
The Scottish philosophy of Thomas Reid and his successors believed that David Hume's scepticism was no more than the genuine outcome of Locke's sensationalist appeal to experience when ripened or forced on by the immaterialism of Bishop Berkeley - God and the soul alone; not God, world and soul.
Such philosophies are called rationalist or sensationalist according as they lay emphasis specially on the function of reason or that of the senses.
Charron's psychology is sensationalist.
In fact, their stark message about UFO reality can sometimes read like a sensationalist tabloid headline.
Finally, the Stoic analysis of the process of knowledge is sensationalist and empiricist.
Flint that while materialism requires sensationalist psychology, yet the psychology in question allows no valid inference to matter, and therefore destroys materialism.
He is realistic and idealistic, individualistic and universalistic, monistic and dualistic, sensationalist and intellectualist, naturalist and supernaturalist, rationalist and mystic, gnostic and agnostic. He is the prince of the Vermittler in philosophy, ethics, religion and theology.
Locke is thus a sensationalist and empiricist, but incompletely, and without perfect coherence.