14 June, 2005
Sense
is one of the 400 words for general things. "Our senses," said Richards and Gibson, "seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling---are ways through which we get knowledge. Our ideas come to us through our senses" (EP 2, 150).
Sense, in addition, is what gives us ideas in a word. One word sometimes has a number of different senses. In Basic English, they are the root-sense and expansions. The word "sense," for example, has its root-sense as a physical senses, or five senses. One of its expansions is sense in a word. If it is not possible to get an idea from someone's statement, we may say: "It doesn't make sense."
Sense is sometimes good sense or common sense.
Sensing is a form of the word used in statements like this: "Animals are quick at sensing danger" (Basic by Examples). ¶ 10:38
Sense, in addition, is what gives us ideas in a word. One word sometimes has a number of different senses. In Basic English, they are the root-sense and expansions. The word "sense," for example, has its root-sense as a physical senses, or five senses. One of its expansions is sense in a word. If it is not possible to get an idea from someone's statement, we may say: "It doesn't make sense."
Sense is sometimes good sense or common sense.
Sensing is a form of the word used in statements like this: "Animals are quick at sensing danger" (Basic by Examples). ¶ 10:38
