Abstract Individual differences and polysemy have rich literatures in cognitive linguistics, but little is said about the prospect of individual polysemy. This article reports an investigation that sought to establish whether people vary senses a polysemous word they find meaningful, develop novel methodology study The combined established tools: sentence-sorting tasks, rarely used statistical ...

In AI approaches to argumentation, different senses of argument are often conflated. We propose a three-level distinction between arguments, cases, and debates. This allows for modularising issues within levels and identifying systematic relations between levels. Arguments, comprised of rules, facts, and a claim, are the basic units; they instantiate argument schemes; they have no sub-arguments...

For hundreds of years, people have been curious about the ways in which living things perceive the world around them, especially the senses: taste, touch, smell, sight, and hearing. Investigators had learned as early as the 17th century that the human eye is a form of camera and that the ear perceives sound by detecting the vibrations of sound waves in the air. The skin was known to be able to ...

‘Explanation’ appears to be ambiguous between a representational-artifact, an objective, and a doxastic sense. That the distinctions between the three are still poorly understood we regard as an impediment to progress in the philosophy of science and as a source of the field’s resistance to greater integration with experimental psychology. We begin to elucidate the overlapping contours of the t...

This volume is about the many ways we perceive. Contributors explore the nature of the individual senses, how and what they tell us about the world, and how they interrelate. They often represent competing views: for instance, some argue that perception uses the senses in concert, while others are content, at least for present purposes, to leave unchallenged the traditional assumption that we p...

This review of kinaesthesia, the senses of limb position and limb movement, has been prompted by recent new observations on the role of motor commands in position sense. They make it necessary to reassess the present-day views of the underlying neural mechanisms. Peripheral receptors which contribute to kinaesthesia are muscle spindles and skin stretch receptors. Joint receptors do not appear t...

What is the meaning of a word? Unless one believes that we are born with an innate set of meanings waiting to find their corresponding expression in language, another option is that we learn the meaning of a word by observing how it is used by the language community we are born in. Some usages find their way into dictionaries and become established word senses. In order to understand what const...

This review makes the case for anthropological reflection on the intersection of food and the senses. Given that a focus on food and the senses allows us to explore some of the most basic boundaries of inside and outside, private and public, individual and collective, this topic offers an excellent window onto that elusive notion of everyday life that anthropologists wish to understand theoreti...

In the last decade, studies of transient receptor potential (TRP) channels, a superfamily of cation-conducting membrane proteins, have significantly extended our knowledge about the molecular basis of sensory perception in animals. Due to their distinct activation mechanisms and biophysical properties, TRP channels are highly suited to function in receptor cells, either as receptors for environ...