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This is how your language affects your thoughts
I’ve learned that each of these words offers a window to understand different cultures, which can influence anything from the way you make decisions to the habits you form.
Steph Smith • Gaining Perspective Through Untranslatable Words
Is language reflective of a culture’s values and worldview, or does it limit the possibilities of experience?
Jaime Green • The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Essentially, this is the idea that the structure of a language determines a native speaker’s thinking.5
Jaime Green • The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
My emphasis on language also comes from a deep conviction that language shapes our thoughts. You cannot answer a question that you cannot ask, and you cannot ask a question that you have no words for.
Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie • The Book of Why
“So thinking is prior to language. What language contributes is to firm up certain particular ways of seeing the world and give fixity to them. This has its good side, and its bad. It aids consistency of reference over time and space. But it can also exert a restrictive force on what and how we think. It represents a more fixed version of the world... See more
The Master and His Emissary Quotes by Iain McGilchrist
We can only experience the world with our receptors and the degree of linguistic precision that our culture affords us.