8 ideas
15785 | Our commitments are to an 'ontology', but also to an 'ideology', or conceptual system [Hintikka] |
15786 | Commitment to possible worlds is part of our ideology, not part of our ontology [Hintikka] |
3914 | Language arranges sensory experience to form a world-order [Whorf] |
3916 | Hopi consistently prefers verbs and events to nouns and things [Whorf] |
20921 | How can we state relativism of sweet and sour, if they have no determinate nature? [Theophrastus] |
3917 | Scientific thought is essentially a specialised part of Indo-European languages [Whorf] |
5990 | Theophrastus doubted whether nature could be explained teleologically [Theophrastus, by Gottschalk] |
3915 | The Hopi have no concept of time as something flowing from past to future [Whorf] |