ABSTRACT
We se e with th e eyes of our culture . Willia m James tells the story o f a tribe of skilled canoe makers reacting to the visit of a steamship to their shores. They were fascinated by the lifeboats, but oblivious of the liner. Epictetus makes the same point in reverse: not things, he says, confuse men, but opinions of things. And the opinion of things, the very awareness of things, is traditionalized by social nor m an d socia l caveat .
