8 ideas
5435 | An interpreter of a text, because of wider knowledge, can understand it better than its author [Schleiermacher, by Mautner] |
22028 | Unity emerges from understanding particulars, so understanding is prior to seeing unity [Schleiermacher] |
12887 | A whole must have one characteristic, an internal relation, and a structure [Rescher/Oppenheim] |
3914 | Language arranges sensory experience to form a world-order [Whorf] |
3916 | Hopi consistently prefers verbs and events to nouns and things [Whorf] |
3917 | Scientific thought is essentially a specialised part of Indo-European languages [Whorf] |
20959 | Concepts are only analytic once the predicate is absorbed into the subject [Schleiermacher] |
3915 | The Hopi have no concept of time as something flowing from past to future [Whorf] |