Aristotle, in On Sense and the Sensible (350BC), gives 5 senses: touch and taste, and those which act through external media, seeing (colour), hearing (sound) and smelling (odour). We've kept with these, in the West. I'd like to know what, in other civilisations, are (or have been) the canonical senses. Does Japanese culture have an equivalent list, or is there an Ethiopian or Mayan one? Please do let me know if you know.
Aristotle, in On Sense and the Sensible (350BC), gives 5 senses: touch and taste, and those which act through external media, seeing (colour), hearing (sound) and smelling (odour). We've kept with these, in the West. I'd like to know what, in other civilisations, are (or have been) the canonical senses. Does Japanese culture have an equivalent list, or is there an Ethiopian or Mayan one? Please do let me know if you know.