Ecomuseums become more realistic

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  • Kenneth Hudson

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5617/nm.3672

Abstract

You are allfamiliar with the philosophical notion that nothing exists until and unless there is a word to describe and define it. Let us suppose, for instance, that my language and yours had no word for 'weather'. We would all have experienced sunshine, rain, frost, snow and wind, and we would know that these conditions came and went, but we should only be able to think of them as separate phenomena, without any general concept, expressed by the term 'weather: to bind them together as natural happenings beyond human control. The presence ofthe word 'weather' in the language changes our attitude to its individual components. They are all 'weather: so that we are able to have weatherforecasts and weather reports, instead of merely rainforecasts and snow reports. 

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