| feeling | The psychosomatic (but non-sensory-perceptual) form (whether appetitive or emotional) in which a person experiences a sense of the need satisfying significance to oneself of some aspect of reality, and to what degree.
ElaborationA feeling is an affective experience. Feeling is experienced physically and mentally, but non-sensory-perceptually, because it differs from
sense-perceptions of pleasure or pain, such as those experienced in taste or touch. |
| fundamental (philosophical, noun) | A principle that's involved in the foundation or base of philosophy, that forms and serves as a central component of the system and structure of knowledge, and thus is of great significance.
Elaboration The law of identity - the principle that each existent is what it is - is one example. |
