[lit-ideas] Re: "Bleach smells like bleach"
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:02:46 EST
In a message dated 2/7/2005 11:53:47 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
pas@xxxxxxxx writes:
"Bleach smells like bleach"
...
I think you are going way too deep on this one JL -- but that's what makes
this all fun, right?
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Some comments from H. P. Grice, 'Some remarks about the senses', repr. in
WOW, Studies in the Way of Words, below.
Cheers,
JL
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"Pains are not greatly variegated; except in intensity and location. Smells
are." (p. 249).
"There is a standard procedure for smelling, namely, inhaling." (p. 249).
From F N Sibley, "Tastes and smells", in his collection of essays, -- Sibley
was colleague of Grice in Oxford --:
"It is true that human beings have limited sensitivity and powers of
differentiation for smells compared with, say, dogs." (p. 213). "Nevertheless,
...
most people an discriminate and many can be trained to discriminate a very
large number of subtly different smells."
The question then becomes one for McEvoy:
Is "Bleach smells like bleach" -- refutable?
Cheers,
JL
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