{"id":35,"date":"2007-06-14T13:49:36","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T18:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomideas.net\/?p=35"},"modified":"2007-06-14T13:49:36","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T18:49:36","slug":"sapir-whorf-hypothesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have quite a few problems with this hypothesis. It isn&#8217;t that the hypothesis is flawed &#8211; quite the contrary, actually: this hypothesis is so obvious that it really doesn&#8217;t deserve to be named after two people who, incidentally, were <em>not<\/em> the first to discover or write about it. Another problem I have is that it&#8217;s needlessly specific. It can be summarized in three words as &#8220;language influences thought&#8221;, when a much more general hypothesis (the one I arrived at as a child and later incorporated into my psychological postulates) is &#8220;expression influences thought&#8221;. Finally, the hypothesis is needlessly unidirectional: to argue that expression is not a <em>product<\/em> of thought, formal system that it is, is ludicrous. Therefore, an even stronger statement is &#8220;expression and thought influence each other&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I needed to be born 50 years ago, when the obvious things weren&#8217;t all discovered yet. But then, perhaps I would have died in childbirth had that happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have quite a few problems with this hypothesis. It isn&#8217;t that the hypothesis is flawed &#8211; quite the contrary, actually: this hypothesis is so obvious that it really doesn&#8217;t deserve to be named after two people who, incidentally, were not the first to discover or write about it. Another problem I have is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-ideas","category-philosophy","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}