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Full Idea
What we call "scientific thought" is a specialisation of the western Indo-European type of language.
Clarification
Meaning it depends on a particular language
Gist of Idea
Scientific thought is essentially a specialised part of Indo-European languages
Source
Benjamin Lee Whorf (An American Indian model of the Universe [1936], p.246)
Book Ref
'A Companion to Epistemology', ed/tr. Dancy,J. /Sosa,E. [Blackwell 1993], p.246
A Reaction
This is the beginnings of an absurd extreme relativist view of science, based on a confusion about meaning and thought.
| 3917 | Scientific thought is essentially a specialised part of Indo-European languages [Whorf] |
| 3915 | The Hopi have no concept of time as something flowing from past to future [Whorf] |
| 3916 | Hopi consistently prefers verbs and events to nouns and things [Whorf] |
| 3914 | Language arranges sensory experience to form a world-order [Whorf] |