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CHAPTER 5. WHAT THE DICTIONARIES SAY 209<br />

this chapter. There are only three senses distinguished by all four, eye, accompany, <strong>and</strong><br />

visit, but another three senses are distinguished by at least three of the four, recognize,<br />

determine, <strong>and</strong>ensure. All of these six are among those I have called \basic senses",<br />

although it could be argued that accompany is less basic, being much more specialized.<br />

W3NI distinguishes sharply between transitive <strong>and</strong> intransitive uses, but none of<br />

the smaller dictionaries have the space to do this. This prevents them from recognizing a<br />

sense faculty, but saves them from splitting several of our senses, as W3NI does. None<br />

of the dictionaries, not even the much larger W3NI, distinguishes among recognize, con-<br />

dition <strong>and</strong> process. Nor does W3NI distinguish between envision <strong>and</strong> hallucinate,<br />

despite discussing envision in three places. Overall, the agreement between the smaller<br />

dictionaries <strong>and</strong> our sense divisions is reasonably good, but the organization of the entry in<br />

the W3NI is quite di erent.

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