5 ideas
19382 | Abstracta are abbreviated ways of talking; there are just substances, and truths about them [Leibniz] |
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] |
20239 | Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche] |
3915 | The Hopi have no concept of time as something flowing from past to future [Whorf] |