Definition of

Sense

Hearing

Hearing is one of the human senses.

Sense is a concept with various uses and meanings. It is, on the one hand, the physiological process of reception and recognition of stimuli that occurs through sight , hearing , touch , taste or smell .

For example: “Don't worry if you don't know how to cook: my sense of taste is not too sophisticated” , “My sense of sight prevents me from buying such a poorly composed painting” , “An accident caused the famous artist to lose his sense of hearing at five years of age .

Sense of balance

The sense of balance , on the other hand, refers to the perception that a human being has of his environment and the way in which he keeps his body upright, without allowing the force of gravity to knock him down.

It is a skill that we develop during the first months of life and that combines the senses of sight and hearing , although people deprived of any of them can supplement them in various ways.

Silhouette

The sense of balance is associated with the perception of the environment and keeping the body upright.

Understanding and full significance

Sense is linked, on the other hand, to understanding or reason . It may be a particular way of understanding something or the knowledge with which certain actions are carried out: “The president expressed, in that sense, that the decision would be agreed upon with the opposition,” “You have to read meaningfully to understand the material.”

The reason for being , the full meaning or the purpose are also associated with the meaning: “What you say doesn't make any sense to me” , “Marta ran away without sense, since she would never arrive in time , “The singer committed an attack” . senseless against someone who just wanted to say hello.”

Our history as a species shows us time and time again that the truth of one era can be the absurdity of the next, and vice versa. The millions of pages of the tens of thousands of books that collect a considerable part of the experience of human beings on this planet show us how wrong it can be to underestimate an idea, as well as make it immovable. Despite this almost obligatory wisdom, which we inherit generation after generation, it is very difficult for us to accept that which exceeds the limits of our reasoning .

If people like Christopher Columbus or Thomas Alva Edison had ceased their efforts every time they received “this doesn't make sense” in response, then who knows what our lives would be like? If we all thought the same way, if we reached the same conclusions, if we never gave space to supposedly crazy ideas, then there would be very few possibilities, and they would all lead us to the same point: extinction.

Different ways of understanding meaning

Regarding unconventional ideas, lateral thinking is a method that proposes going outside the structures that define our reasoning to find the solution to a problem. It is a technique widely used in creative fields, such as advertising, and there are those who claim to be able to adopt it through training.

The different meanings of the terms ( "This word has different meanings depending on the context" ), that or that which expresses a feeling ( "In a sense of tribute, his companions said goodbye to the coffin with applause" ) and the orientation in space ( " You have to keep walking in this direction to get to the beach” ) are other issues that can be mentioned through this concept.

Differences with the address

The concepts of meaning and direction are often confused. However, they are two very different things: the direction is a line that can be traversed by point.

To understand the meaning of sense, however, it is necessary to place two points on said line (which can be A and B) and think that a third (C) is preparing to go from one to the other. The two possible directions in this case are from A to B and from B to A, while the direction always remains the same.