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Senses. We recognize five senses: two distantial ones--vision and hearing--and three tactile, or proximity ones--taste, touch and smell. Each of these structure the world (time and space) in specifiably distinct ways. Together they form our polymodal, embodied direct access to the world. (Artistic) representations of whatever kind (pictorial, musical, olfactory, tasty ... supposing these can be devised (V:3)) presuppose some restricted address of this polymodality. (VII:7; VIII:2).

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Last update: 9 April 1996
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