Philosophy · Philosophy of Language
A topic within Philosophy of Language, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
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Benjamin Lee Whorf
Argues that a language's grammar is not a neutral channel for thought but actively shapes how its speakers analyse and perceive the world, drawing on contrasts between Hopi and European tense and number systems.
Notes on this copyEric H. Lenneberg
Challenges Whorf's linguistic relativity for confusing what a language makes easy to say with what its speakers are actually capable of perceiving or thinking, and calls for the claim to be tested rather than assumed.
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