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throwaway7645 | 8 years 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.

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danans|8 years 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|8 years ago

Thanks...weak sounds a lot more plausible than fully binding.