Language, Etymology, William Jones, Science, Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Paradigm Shift
Philologist (individual studying historical language skills), William Jones (1746-1794) remarked during a lecture in Calcutta the following:
The sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps no longer exists.
What William Jones achieved during his life-long stay in India was nothing less than to bring about a revolution. Before Jones showed that languages change and evolve and that languages can be related to each other, it was generally believed among "the scholars of Europe" that the different languages had been created at the same time and made different since the Almighty God had punished humanity when they in their pride built the "Tower of Babel ". - An interesting example of the stupidity in believing "Holy Scriptures".When Europe learned and embraced the idea that gradual change was something that ever took place, it resulted in a paradigm shift, which came to influence European thinking.
It also resulted in creating a new study - Ethymology.
Ludwig Feuerbach: To religion only that which is holy is true. - To Philosophy: Only that which is true is holy.
Socrates: I cannot teach anybody anything. - All I can do is make them think.
ToddePS. More about paradigm shit and disruption at:
http://axiom1b.blogspot.se/2016/05/interesting-lecture-on-how-technology.html
and about "Holy Scriptures":
and about "Friendship":
Also check the application of a "Modern Socratic Method" (dialectics) at:
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