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... Hopi rather dis- @tinguishes the ' manifest ' , all that which is accessible to the senses , with no distinction between present and past , and the ' unmani- fest ' comprising the future as well as what we call mental . Navaho ( cf ...
... Hopi rather dis- @tinguishes the ' manifest ' , all that which is accessible to the senses , with no distinction between present and past , and the ' unmani- fest ' comprising the future as well as what we call mental . Navaho ( cf ...
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... Hopi Weltanschauung is another and quite different one , non - mathematical and linguistic ( Whorf , 1952 , p . 67 ) . The ingrained mechanistic way of thinking which comes into difficulties with modern scientific developments is a ...
... Hopi Weltanschauung is another and quite different one , non - mathematical and linguistic ( Whorf , 1952 , p . 67 ) . The ingrained mechanistic way of thinking which comes into difficulties with modern scientific developments is a ...
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... Hopi . ' Similarly , ' the Hopi for " prepare " , we are told , is " to try - for , to practise - upon " . But this is exactly prae - paro . ' ' It will not do to say that Hopi physics could not have had concepts such as space ...
... Hopi . ' Similarly , ' the Hopi for " prepare " , we are told , is " to try - for , to practise - upon " . But this is exactly prae - paro . ' ' It will not do to say that Hopi physics could not have had concepts such as space ...
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Introduction | 1 |
The Meaning of General System Theory | 29 |
Limitations | 38 |
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