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The actual article by Lera Boroditsky at the edge.org: http://edge.org/3rd_culture/boroditsky09/boroditsky09_index.html http://edge.org/3rd_culture/boroditsky0

• pradocchia 17y ago
  Pretty interesting article, once I got past how hot the author was, and how young she was when she became a professor at MIT. Women like that used to fill my dreams. I think it's self evident that language influences articulate cognition. It's a discrete index to a world of continuous phenomenon. But not all cognition is articulate. How far do our linguistic markers reach? Take math for example. When a mathematician intuits a proof, he's already conversant in the language of mathematics. He'll use that language to construct a formal proof. But did it also help in the first place?