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Re:New sense discovered in dog noses: the ability to detect ... by wintermutesGhst on Monday March 02, 2020 @02:02PM (#22467599)
I think degree of sensitivity, discrimination, or directionality can warrant counting a 'new sense'. I would consider my sense of thermoreception to be different from that of a snake's heat-pits, or hearing to be a different sense from feeling vibrations.
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Re:New sense discovered in dog noses: the ability to detect ... by frandroid on Monday March 02, 2020 @07:41PM (#22470712)
As the article about epistemology posted yesterday mentioned, at some point, a difference in degree becomes a difference in kind.
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