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Prof David West wrote:
Major distraction prevented replying sooner.
That's the beauty of e-mail!
No cultural universals is the antidote to the disease of ethnocentrism
Aha! I hadn't thought of that, at all. So, regardless of the finer
points
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On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:22:08 -0700, glen e. p. ropella
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I pretty much agree with your comments about cultural universals, at
least in so far as the term is intended to be used scientifically.
Putting on my Wittgenstein
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 02:06:40PM -0400, Prof David West wrote:
Some of the most interesting, and unresolved, data is found in very
basic phenomenon. For example, color perception / color terms in
language. Cultures have 2 - n color terms in their language:
If they have exactly two
