Language and the World

This book presents a new perspective on ways we encounter the world with our languages. There are two kinds of languages. Some direct speakers to encounter the world as made up of things. Others direct speakers to encounter the world as the flow of all with no idea of change, for there is no thing to change, only differing descriptions of the flow. The essays by Richard L. Epstein set out this division of languages and explore its significance for linguistics, metaphysics, thought, meaning, lo

Essays New (Richard L. Epstein): The World as the Flow of All - Language and the World - Language-Thought-Meaning - Why Event-Talk Is a Problem - On the Genesis of the Concept of Object in Children - A New Turing Test - The Thing-Basis of Western Philosophy - The Metaphysical Basis of Logic: Things and Masses - Languages and Logics --- Essays Old: (Dorothy Lee) Conceptual Implications of an Indian Language - Categories of the Generic and Particular in Wintu - Linguistic Reflections of Wintu Thought - Symbolization and Value - (Benjamin Lee Whorf) Grammatical Categories - Science and Linguistics - The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language - Languages and Logic - (M. Dale Kinkade) Salish Evidence Against the Universality of ''Noun'' and ''Verb'' - (Friedrich Nietzsche) "Reason" in Philosophy - (Benson Mates) Metaphysics and Linguistic Relativity