Weak neo-Whorfianism and the philosophy of time

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Weak neo-Whorfianism and the philosophy of time

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University of Otago

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According to a thesis I call the linguistic assumption, the structure of language is a guide to the fundamental nature of reality. It is deployed in the metaphysical debate over the nature of time. In that debate, it is more radical than the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and should be rejected. A weak interpretation of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis makes the empirical claim that speakers of different languages experience, perceive, or think about aspects of the world differently. I survey recent exper...

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Article

Date created

2022-09

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Dyke, Heather

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/24862

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Linguistics / Psychology / Psychology, Experimental / Social Sciences

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