9 ideas
8508 | A 'trope' is an abstract particular, the occurrence of an essence [Williams,DC] |
8509 | A world is completely constituted by its tropes and their connections [Williams,DC] |
8510 | 'Socrates is wise' means a concurrence sum contains a member of a similarity set [Williams,DC] |
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] |
6027 | From the fact that some men die, we cannot infer that they all do [Philodemus] |
22241 | Don't fear god or worry about death; the good is easily got and the terrible easily cured [Philodemus] |
3915 | The Hopi have no concept of time as something flowing from past to future [Whorf] |