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This type of reasoning is so sketchy. Language is only roughly mapped to thought, it isn't an exact thing like mathematics.
by bingu 4y ago
This type of reasoning is so sketchy. Language is only roughly mapped to thought, it isn't an exact thing like mathematics.
- alsetmusic 4y agoI don’t know. I believe that language shapes reality. For example, I decided I wanted to let go of latent homophobia by dropping a word from my vocabulary that was seen as fairly harmless by sis males when I was growing up. After consciously avoiding it and choosing not to say it, even in my mind, for a while, it truly left my pallet of words for expression. I do think that had a perceivable (to me) effect on my attitude and thinking. How many esoteric words have you learned in life that helped you to better describe a situation? I look up any word I don’t know (in something of an OCD way). I’ve had many “aha“ moments where learning a word gave me a slightly greater ability to understand the world, hence “shaping” my view of it. It’s not exact, but I wouldn’t be so dismissive of the value in thinking about words and decisions on how to think about things.