Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
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At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.Benjamin Whorf
Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.
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We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.
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But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.
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Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Benjamin Whorf
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