Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC, USA ; Department of Philosophy, University of Connecticut Storrs, CT, USA.
Front Psychol. 2014 May 27;5:436. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00436. eCollection 2014.
If any sense modality represents, vision does, but argument is needed to show that smell does. This paper rebuts two reasons for doubting that smell represents, and offers several arguments that it does. The paper then considers several recent proposals as to exactly what a smell represents, and defends a version of the author's original proposal-that a smell represents a miasma in the air-against its competitors.
如果任何感觉模态都具有代表性，那么视觉就是如此，但需要论证才能表明嗅觉也是如此。本文反驳了怀疑嗅觉具有代表性的两个理由，并提出了几个证明嗅觉具有代表性的论据。然后，本文考虑了最近关于嗅觉具体代表什么的几种提议，并捍卫了作者最初的提议——嗅觉代表空气中的瘴气——反对其竞争对手。
