Re: "We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation."

[Cheerskep]

In a message dated 1/26/13 3:31:39 PM, art...@gmail.com writes:


> Any reaction to THIS Sapir comment?:
>
> - In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social
> factors, one's own language above all.
>
> E.S.
>
Again, far too broad to be of much use. Would Sapir call architecture "a
form of expression"? Did he compare the architectual ingenuities of people
with "the same language"? I'll bet he did not. Sapir showed what seems to have
been an immense gift for grasping aspects of obscure and dying languages,
and various narrow facets of anthropology, but such a talent can flourish in a
brain with little ability at philosophy -- even philosophy of language and
mind, and related ontologies.