The Western concept of taste is a metaphor drawn from physical flavor detection

Evidence

This use of taste is essentially a metaphor—equating our capacity to make proper aesthetic judgments with the deeply ingrained ability to detect flavor. A healthy palate finds coffee bitter and candy sweet, and, likewise, the well-adjusted person perceives the most elegant art, style, and fashion as “good” and inferior versions as “bad.” For all his transgressions, John Waters upholds this older, elitist idea of taste; he knows that rancid aesthetics can be just as stomach turning as rancid meats. — W. David Marx, Status and Culture, 242

Categorization

• DEFINE: Demonstrates how the term ‘taste’ is an extended metaphor mapping physical palate onto aesthetic judgment.
• XREF: connects to: A closed equation approximates sensory pleasantness from sharpness, roughness, tonality, and loudness — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 1375; Sensory science quantifies perceptual attributes through structured descriptive analysis

Broader Connections

• Sensory science quantifies perceptual attributes through structured descriptive analysis #exemplifies (0.78)
• A closed equation approximates sensory pleasantness from sharpness, roughness, tonality, and loudness #expands (0.75) — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 1375