The nearer edge of the subjective cuts across and includes part of our present time, viz. the moment of inception, but most of our present belongs in the Hopi scheme to the objective realm and so is indistinguishable from our past. There is also a verb form, the INCEPTIVE which refers to this EDGE of emergent manifestation in the reverse way-as belonging to the objective, at the edge at which objectivity is obtained; this is used to indicate beginning/starting, and in most cases there is no difference apparent in the translation from the similar use of the expective. But, at certain crucial points, significant and fundamental differences appear. The inceptive, referring to the objective and the result side, and not like the expective to the subjective and causal side, implies the ending of the work of causation in the same breath that it states the beginning of manifestation.
- BENJAMIN LEE WHORF AN AMERICAN INDIAN MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE