Abstract
It is one thing to accept as a general proposition that the cognitive processes habitually employed by most medieval people may have been rather different from those that we normally employ. It is quite another to demonstrate conclusively that a given mental faculty — in this case, a certain form of expectation — simply did not exist in most medieval minds.
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Austen, J., Sense and Sensibility, Worlds Classics edn (Oxford University Press, 1980) p. 17.
Whorf, B. L., Language, Thought and Reality (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, reissued 1971) pp. 113 and 144. Whorf’s concern in presenting this evidence is to show the interconnection between language structures and thought; see Chapter 1 of this book for a further discussion of Whorf’s ideas. Hopi is like Old English, Old French and the languages of many other primitive peoples in its lack of a future tense.
Bettenson, D., Documents of the Christian Church, 2nd edn (Oxford University Press, 1963) p. 26.
Davis, N. (ed.) Paston Letters (Oxford University Press, 1963) p. 279.
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LePan, D. (1989). Expectation. In: The Cognitive Revolution in Western Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09988-7_4
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