tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611639517962742486.post4229071632908609084..comments2024-03-25T15:31:12.151-07:00Comments on We Live In A Political World: #200 / Watching Our WordsGary A. Pattonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15049925834933920507noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611639517962742486.post-80352014993057648252015-07-19T12:47:20.077-07:002015-07-19T12:47:20.077-07:00That Leiber quote screams false dichotomy. Languag...That Leiber quote screams false dichotomy. Language is both something we invent and something that we use to create/define ourselves.<br /><br />It sounds like you're talking about linguistic relativity [1]. This principle holds that the structure of a language affects the ways in which its speakers conceptualize their world. This contrasts with Dennett's description of Mentalese; the internal representation of real-world objects and concepts in the brain [2]. The strong Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is disproved on a daily basis when we learn new words for things we've been using/doing/seeing all along. Supposed evidence for this strong hypothesis, such as Native Americans being unable to see ships on the horizon, and cultures unable to see a given color, have been thoroughly disproved [3, 4].<br /><br />1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity<br />2. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2069 pages 234.<br />3. http://bit.ly/1JqZpee<br />4. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373969<br />@PhysicsPolicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04664172982768472896noreply@blogger.com