Regardless of whom you think of as (more) correct and whether the language problem in science is real or imagined , from this essay one would have to conclude that people project the implicit assumptions of their culture even onto the animals they study.
PS:
Here is an article about Kinji Imanishi and his ground-breaking research in primatology ( Current Biology Vol 18 No 14, Tetsuro Matsuzawa and William C. McGrew )
PS:
Here is an article about Kinji Imanishi and his ground-breaking research in primatology ( Current Biology Vol 18 No 14, Tetsuro Matsuzawa and William C. McGrew )
Imanishi’s focus was to seek the evolutionary origin of human society. For him the central issue was society, and society had its own reality: it cannot be reduced to its constituent individuals nor just relationships among individuals. The society exists as a whole. This belief was the primary force for Imanishi sending the expeditions to study the society of monkeys and the society of chimpanzees in the wild.
