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We easily lose ourselves in WORDS, become hypnotized into implicitly believing that when you have attached a word to something, you know what it is. The fact is: We don´t know what it is. We´ve only covered up the mystery with a label.
it is—in principle—entirely sensible to ask whether our culture could affect our thoughts through the linguistic concepts it imposes. But while the question seems perfectly kosher in theory, in practice the mere whiff of the subject today makes most linguists, psychologists, and anthropologists recoil. The reason why the topic causes such intense e
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