Sapience vs Sentience - What's the difference?
sapience | sentience |
The property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.
* 2009 , Robert Brandom, Reason in Philosophy: Animating Ideas
The state or quality of being sentient; possession of consciousness or sensory awareness.
* 1903 , , The Jewel of Seven Stars , ch. 5:
* 2007 Dec. 28, Alexandra Silver, "
As nouns the difference between sapience and sentience
is that sapience is the property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom while sentience is the state or quality of being sentient; possession of consciousness or sensory awareness.sapience
English
Noun
(en-noun)- I then marked out three ways in which we can instead describe and demarcate ourselves in terms of the sapience that distinguishes us from the beasts of forest and field.
sentience
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Noun
(-)- [T]he shadows . . . presently began to seem, as on last night, to have a sentience of their own.
Did This Tiger Hold a Grudge?," Time :
- The science of animal sentience is far from a firm one; there's no way of knowing exactly what any animal is feeling.
