philosophy question?

Question

i am to explain to someone that has no sense of smell , how things smell, or how to smell, for a philosophy paper.

Answer 1

I always found that the taste of something is very akin to its smell. That's why when I am to eat something I haven't tasted before I usually check its smell first. Actually, I believe this is what most people do. Anyway, I hope this might help you a bit. Good luck!

Answer 2

Smell is something that can't be touched. If you think about how something tastes- that can be comparible to smell.
It is as if you have the sensation of what you are eating when it isn't in your mouth. Lets say you eat garlic. The taste is strong. The smell of the garlie is a the essence of particles of the garlic traveling in the air around the garlic. You nose can predict what is in front of you for tasting. First you will smell , then taste. If you are blind folded. And if you were a person who could spell......first someone puts in front of you a cup of hot coffee.......Then puts a plate of pasta in front of you.. Like I said if you could smell........the smell would match the taste becasue small particles of the food are in the air. First you are asked to smell the Pasta with Garlic sauce. You would be able to smell the garlic which is much what it tastes like.
Then you smell the steam from the hot coffee. The smell will reflect the taste of the coffee.

A person who smells is able to take in a breath and the nose sends messeges to the brain telling the person how the thing will taste. And likewise if a person who tastes but doesn't small......they can't even guess what is coming theirway.

Smell and taste work together. Having either smell or lack of taste doesn't give the fullness of either the smell * taste.

thus smell and taste gives a person the ultimite enjoyment of the food that they are eading

Answer 3

I have no sense of smell. I did once, but cancer and radiation took it from me. I have sense memory. I remember what fresh bread baking in the oven smells like. Now when I eat bread, it still has most of the taste of the smell it once had. Plug your nose tightly, and bite into something. Describe that flavor, yet a little stronger. and that will tell you as best you can how it would smell.

Answer 4

You can't :P Knowledge comes from experince, how can they comprehend something they can't know?

I guess if you HAD to do something, you should use taste to help you. Taste and smell are EXTREMELY related. In fact, your sense of taste can only taste bitterness, sweetness, spicy, and sour. All other flavours are mixes of them and smell :P Just use a nose plug (very tight) and eat a skittle with your eyes closed. then guess the flavour!