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When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so. Sigmund Freud		Sunday Nov 24, 2024
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We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way - an agreement that holds through our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language. Benjamin Lee Whorf

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	Benjamin Lee Whorf
	Benjamin Lee Whorf (April 24, 1897 in Winthrop, Massachusetts - July 26, 1941) was an American linguist. Whorf, along with Edward Sapir, is best known for having laid the foundation of the Sapir - Whorf hypothesis. Read More

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We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way - an agreement that holds through our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language.