Abstract
Abstract The olfactory system contains two senses that share the same type of stimuli, sensory transduction mechanism, and processing centres. Yet, orthonasal and retronasal olfaction differ in their types of perceptible objects as individuated by their sensory qualities. What will be explored is how the account of orthonasal smell developed in the Molecular Structure Theory of smell can be expanded for retronasal olfaction. Surveying the differences between orthonasal and retronasal olfaction provides the basis for the central argument that the perceptible objects we refer to as smells and individuated on the basis of their olfactory qualities are only relative to orthonasal olfaction. Retronasal olfaction, it is speculatively concluded, might play an essential role in our perception of flavourful objects.
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