logic of sensations

is captured in the idea that tobacco smoke might be at the intersection of brown crusts, of bread, and beer.

Thus to a logic of sensations tobacco smoke might be the intersection of two groups, one also containing broiled meat and brown crusts of bread (which are like it in being composed oof nitrogen) and the other one to which cheese, beer and honey belong on account of the presence of diacetyl. o Wild cherries, cinnamon, vanilla and sherry are grouped together by the intellect as well as the sense, because they all contain aldehyde, while the closely related smellls of wintergreen, lavender and bananas are to be explained by the presence of ester. (Levi-Strauss 1962: 12) . . . .On intiuitive grounds alone we might group onions, garlic, cabbage, turnips, radishes and musterd together even though botany separates liliaceas nd crucifres. In confirmaiton of the evidence of the sense, chemistry shows that thse different families are unities on another plane: they contain sulpher. (Levi-Strauss 1962: 12)

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logic of sensations