The Five Senses in Classical Science and Ethics
(2024) p.107-118- Abstract
Sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch: that the senses should be enumerated in this way is not self-evident. The number and order of the senses are fixed by custom and tradition, not by nature. The regular order being subject to occasional change proves its arbitrariness. Therefore, we can describe the enumeration of the five senses as an artificial series of natural elements.
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- author
- Vinge, Louise LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024-01
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- The Sixth Sense Reader
- pages
- 12 pages
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85212889999
- ISBN
- 9781847882622
- 9781040283424
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003579649-8
- language
- English
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- yes
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