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Philosophy Explorer wrote: ↑Fri Jun 23, 2017 7:37 pm Used to be five of them and it was that way for many years. Nowadays I'm catching articles saying we have seven or eight of them. So what is a sense, actually?

PhilX

5 if one is fortunate.

1. "sense of touch"

versus

2. "sense of humour"

versus

3. "sense and sensibility" (a title of one of Jane Austen´s novels)

Is it the same kind of "sense" in the three examples ?