The scientific world-view, with its vocabulary, taxonomies, and detachment of logic and the hypothetical from concrete referents, has begun to permeate the minds of post-industrial people … Today we have no difficulty freeing logic from concrete referents and reasoning about purely hypothetical situations. People were not always thus. From interviews Luria conducted with peasants in remote areas of Russia, [Christopher] Hallpike culls some wonderful examples.70 The dialogues paraphrased run as follows:
