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"...language is of central importance to human thought because it structures and limits the ideas that individuals are capable of formulating and expressing."
by cabirum 5y ago
"...language is of central importance to human thought because it structures and limits the ideas that individuals are capable of formulating and expressing."
- zionic 5y agoThus further evidence of neurolinguistic programming being real (or people believing it’s real). Shape the language people are allowed to use and you start to shape their thoughts as well.
- tgv 5y agoThat idea is also known as the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis, and despite many attempts, it has never been proven. There are only a few flawed papers that provide some support. We can safely assume it's untrue. Instead, it's (trivially) the other way around: our thinking shapes our language.