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... Hopi , do not have parts of speech or separable subject and predicate . Rather they signify an event as a whole . When we say , “ a light flashed " or " it ( a dubious hypostatized entity ) flashed , " Hopi uses a single term , " flash ...
... Hopi , do not have parts of speech or separable subject and predicate . Rather they signify an event as a whole . When we say , “ a light flashed " or " it ( a dubious hypostatized entity ) flashed , " Hopi uses a single term , " flash ...
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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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The Meaning of General System Theory | 30 |
Science and Society | 51 |
Advances in General System Theory | 89 |
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