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Just as most of our ordinary recognition and recall of faces takes place independently of language, so too does much of the rest of our sensory experience. Most of the time we touch and taste and smell without reflection. We just do it, privately and individually, without trying to translate our experience into words.
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© 1988 Terence Moore and Chris Carling
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Moore, T., Carling, C. (1988). Educating the Senses. In: The Limitations of Language. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19446-9_15
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