This Is Water: How To Understand People (A Little Bit)
Citation (APA): doormen, m. v. (2018). This Is Water: How To Understand People (A Little Bit) [Kindle Android version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com
Parte introduttiva
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This Is Water: How To Understand People (A Little Bit) By marteen van doormen
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US entrepreneur Frederic Tudor sailed to tropical Martinique with a big scheme to sell ice to the locals.
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VENDERE BIBITE FRESCHE IN MARTINICA....IDEA FOLLE
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The islanders found the product to be nothing other than a curiosity.
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never experienced a cold drink, they could not get why ice had any such value.
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IL PROBLEMA
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people’s finite ‘conceptual horizons’ constrain how they make sense of the world.
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MORALE
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If you don’t have the concept of a ‘cold drink’, you don’t understand the value of ice
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SEMPLICE
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people with red-green color blindness are often unaware of their color vision deficiency
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DALTONICI BAMBINI
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the way you and I make sense of the world is similarly constrained.
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CONOSCIAMO POCHISSIMO
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evolution doesn’t program us for truth,
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D ALTRONDE
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we want to understand how the world works independently of us —
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IMPRESA DISPERATA
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it’s quite possible that there exist facts beyond the range of human concepts.
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L INVISIBILE
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Robert Levy
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ANTROPOLOGO A THAITI
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they described their sorrow as “sickness” or “feeling strange”.
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IL LUTTO THAITIANO NN GENERA DOLORE
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our conceptual horizon not only limits what we can know about reality, but also penetrates how we experience it.
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TESI
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“There are two young fish swimming along who happen to meet an older fish. The older fish nods at them and says: “Morning boys, how’s the water?” The two young fish swim on for a bit and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and asks: “What the hell is water?” — David Forster Wallace.
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LA PARABOLA
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the most obvious and important realities are the hardest to see.
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MESSAGIO
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the subjective character of the experience of a person deaf and blind from birth is not accessible to me,
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SOLIPSISMO
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experience can only be understood from the inside.
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INTERNALISMO
