# The Multisensory Character of Perception O'Callaghan **Opening (not a real abstract):** Sense perception matters because it is our most intimate form of acquaintance with concrete things and happenings independent from ourselves. Perception furnishes materials for thought, grounds empirical beliefs, and guides actions. According to an influential assumption, whether or not cognition is amodal, all perception is modality specific. This assumption is my target. People see, hear, touch, taste, and smell. Species-typical human perception accordingly is associated with several modalities. Allow that not every perceptual modality is sensory, and allow that some sensory modalities are interoceptive. But restrict attention to the exteroceptive modalities of sensory perception. For simplicity, assume that they are vision, audition, touch, gustation, and olfaction. If the senses number more or fewer than the traditional Aristotelian five, **Authors:** [[Casey O’Callaghan]]