substance, object 区别

题目

substance, object 区别
《The Geography of Thought》 中有一句“A novel item, such as a seashell, might have been seen as a substance by the Chinese and as an object by the Greeks.”（Nisbett.R.E, 2003,pp80）在这里作者认为中国人看东西是“consisting of continuous substances”希腊人看东西是“discrete objects”我就一直很郁闷这一句,substance和object到底有什么区别啊?

答案

object是一个完整的物体,substance是组成一个物体的元素.他大概的意思就是说中国人看东西看成是元素组成的,希腊人看就是一个完整的物体.例如海螺,你说个海螺希腊人会想到一个具体的海螺,而中国人可能想到一堆海螺,海...