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NOTE: The examples-page for this metaphor (started 5 Sep 2012) excludes the main special cases of it, namely Cognizing as Seeing and cases of Ideas as [Internal or External] Utterances where the utterances are portrayed as heard (whether or not as also spoken by the person).
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Under this metaphor, thinking, believing, understanding, or other cognitive activities/states are portrayed as physically sensing, in some form (or as the ability to physically sense).
Cognizing as Smelling is a special case that is not very common compared to Cognizing as Seeing. It is manifested in sentences like ``Things didn't smell right to Kevin.'' (There is is currently no separate databank description-page or examples-page for this metaphor.)
Another special case, Cognizing as Being Touched, is quite common, and is a special case also of Ideas as External Entities. For manifestations of Cognizing as Being Touched, see the Ideas as External Entities examples-page of the databank, via the link below.
The special case Cognizing as Hearing is common in sentences like ``It sounds a good idea to me'' and when it is a case also of Ideas as [Internal or External] Utterances where the utterance is oral. For manifestations of the Utterances type, see the Ideas as ... Utterances examples-page of the databank, via the links below.