Robert Boyle maintained that proper natural philosophical knowledge should be generated through experiment and that the foundations of such knowledge were to be constituted by experimentally produced matters of fact. Thomas Hobbes disagreed. In Hobbes's view Boyle's procedures could never yield the degree of certainty requisite in any enterprise worthy of being called philosophical. This text i...

This chapter reviews background material underpinning sensory science and sensory evaluation methodologies. Basic and historical psychophysical methods are reviewed as well as the anatomy, physiology, and function of the chemical senses. The chapter concludes with a discussion of multi-modal sensory interactions. There is no conception in man’s mind which hath not at first, totally or in parts,...

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This chapter reviews background material underpinning sensory science and sensory evaluation methodologies. Basic and historical psychophysical methods are reviewed as well as the anatomy, physiology, and function of the chemical senses. The chapter concludes with a discussion of multi-modal sensory interactions. There is no conception in man’s mind which hath not at first, totally or in parts,...

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