Meaning of 五感 in Japanese
Japanese word definition and usage
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五感
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Kana Readingごかん
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Romajigokan
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Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
- Meaning
- the five senses
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Example Sentences
五感, ごかん used in context
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Smell is one of the five senses.
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Sight is one of the five senses.
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私たちがこの世界を経験し理解するのは、五感を通じて受け入れられ、脳によって解釈される信号を通じてなのである。そして、この両方のプロセスともゆがめられやすい。
We experience and understand the world through signals that are received by the senses and interpreted by the brain - and both stages are subject to distortion.
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それで、過去の知識が、その知識に関するだいたい適切と思われる想定と混ざり合って、五感によって提供される情報を増大させるために利用されるのである。
And so, knowledge from the past, mixed up with assumptions about that knowledge, which may be more or less appropriate, is used to augment information provided by the senses.
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これはつまり、私たちがどんな状況を知覚する場合でも、私たちの知覚は、その時に五感が知覚する信号だけに依存しているわけではないということである。
Which means that our perception of any situation depends only partly on sensory signals being received at that time.
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