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Claiming that language limits what you can imagine is the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and it's been pretty thoroughly debunked: https://en.wik
by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
Claiming that language limits what you can imagine is the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and it's been pretty thoroughly debunked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
- gliese1337 6y ago"It's meant to" and "it does" are different things.
- quotemstr 6y agoNot everyone agrees that it's been "debunked". There's a lot of motivated reasoning in linguistics.
- canjobear 6y agoYou can read about the experiments yourself. Strong Sapir-Whorf (the idea that language determines thought) is DOA. Weak Sapir-Whorf (language has some influence on thought) has ok evidence.