Lumifer comments on Help with understanding some non-standard-LW philosophy viewpoints - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 07 December 2015 08:15:11PM *  -1 points [-]

Anna Wierzbicka tells me that "Bildung" is a particularly German construct. According to it you learn about different view points and then you develop a sophisticated opinion.

Isn't it "you learn about different viewpoints and then you invade Poland"? Do the Russians have a similar construct?

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Comment author: ChristianKl 07 December 2015 09:25:25PM 0 points [-]

Do the Russians have a similar construct?

As aI said Anna Wierzbicka considers it unique to the German language. She wouldn't say that if the concept would exist the same way in Russian.