7 ideas
3916 | Hopi consistently prefers verbs and events to nouns and things [Whorf] |
22137 | Observation can force rejection of some part of the initial set of claims [Duhem, by Boulter] |
3917 | Scientific thought is essentially a specialised part of Indo-European languages [Whorf] |
18197 | Experiments only test groups of hypotheses, and can't show which one is wrong [Duhem] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
3915 | The Hopi have no concept of time as something flowing from past to future [Whorf] |