9 ideas
16978 | If conceivability is a priori coherence, that implies possibility [Tahko] |
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] |
16975 | Essences are used to explain natural kinds, modality, and causal powers [Tahko] |
16976 | Scientific essentialists tend to characterise essence in terms of modality (not vice versa) [Tahko] |
16977 | If essence is modal and laws are necessary, essentialist knowledge is found by scientists [Tahko] |
14014 | Space alone, and time alone, will fade away, and only their union has an independent reality [Minkowski] |
3915 | The Hopi have no concept of time as something flowing from past to future [Whorf] |