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This is Sapir-Whorf thinking. My understanding as a non-linguist is that this has never been proven. I know there is a strong/weak form of the hypothesis, but c
by throwaway7645 9y ago
This is Sapir-Whorf thinking. My understanding as a non-linguist is that this has never been proven. I know there is a strong/weak form of the hypothesis, but can't remember what the distinction is.
- danans 9y ago> but can't remember what the distinction is. The strong hypothesis says that language determines and bounds your thinking, the weak hypothesis is that it influences and conditions your thinking.
- throwaway7645 9y agoThanks...weak sounds a lot more plausible than fully binding.