8 ideas
| 16541 | All the intrinsic properties of a thing should be deducible from its definition [Spinoza] |
| 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] |
| 12314 | Audience-relative explanation, or metaphysical explanation based on information? [Stanford] |
| 12313 | Explanation is for curiosity, control, understanding, to make meaningful, or to give authority [Stanford] |
| 12315 | We can explain by showing constitution, as well as showing causes [Stanford] |
| 13073 | To understand the properties we must know the essence, as with a circle [Spinoza] |
| 3915 | The Hopi have no concept of time as something flowing from past to future [Whorf] |