ABSTRACT
As Jostein Gaarder (1996:127) wrote in the popular philosophical novel Sophie’s World:
We can even trace a particular word for ‘insight’ or ‘knowledge’ from one culture to another all over the IndoEuropean world. In Sanskrit it is vidya. The word is identical to the Greek word idea, which was so important in Plato’s philosophy. From Latin we have the word video, but on Roman ground this simply meant to see. For us, ‘I see’ can mean ‘I understand’.
