How does our language shape the way we think? (2009)
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#2Wittgenstein said it best: "The limits of my language are the limits of my world."
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#3Adds weight to the idea of the Blub Paradox: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
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#4And just when I'd finally flushed Sapir-Whorf out of my system...
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#5Check out her talk as well - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPGpZp1pfQQ
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#6Wittgenstein said it best: "The limits of my language are the limits of my world."
Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt.
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#8And just when I'd finally flushed Sapir-Whorf out of my system...
From what I understand, the original Sapir-Whorf thesis (now the strong version) was (correctly) discredited because it was about language limiting and determining thought. The weak version, that it influences the way we think, is now widely accepted.
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#9Check out her talk as well - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPGpZp1pfQQ
I just saw that last week. Fascinating!
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#10"For a long time, the idea that language might shape thought was considered at best untestable and more often simply wrong."
I dislike sensationalism. The idea that this can be tested is as old as the modern controversy. There were studies on words for colors in the 1950s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_c...