8 ideas
7081 | Philosophy is not separate from or above empirical science [Neurath] |
10486 | If we are rebuilding our ship at sea, we should jettison some cargo [Boolos on Neurath] |
8485 | We must always rebuild our ship on the open sea; we can't reconstruct it properly in dry-dock [Neurath] |
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] |
20653 | Six reduction levels: groups, lives, cells, molecules, atoms, particles [Putnam/Oppenheim, by Watson] |
3915 | The Hopi have no concept of time as something flowing from past to future [Whorf] |