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Ideas for 'Deflationary Metaontology of Thomasson', 'Doing Without Concepts' and 'Attack Upon Christendom'

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19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / b. Causal reference

18612	Americans are more inclined to refer causally than the Chinese are [Machery]
	Full Idea: Tests suggest that American subjects were significantly more likely than Chinese subjects to have intuitions in line with causal-historical theories of reference.
	From: Edouard Machery (Doing Without Concepts [2009], 8.1.3)
	A reaction: This is an example of 'experimental philosophy' in action (of which Machery is a champion). The underlying idea is that Americans are generally more disposed to think causally than the Chinese are. So more scientific? What do the Hopi do?