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We think we understand the physical world but we do not. For example, some features of the world are derived from others, which makes the latter more fundamental and the former less so. Some scientists believe that only science can tell us how things work. Philosophers do not agree. Do philosophers see things that scientists cannot?
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George P. Lakoff is an American cognitive linguist and professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
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