...fnr hi;; a,pa.lysis of impre ions, far , rtjental stock in trade. Formulation of ideas is not an _ independent process, "strictly rational in the old...this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds/We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because...

...language (Hopi). What are to English differences of time are to Hopi differences in the kind of validity. kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be...minds. 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...

...down by our native languages. The categories and types we isolate from the world of phenomena we do find there because they stare every observer in the...means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds. (Whorf 1956, 212-13) Whorf, however, did not merely repeat the positions of Sapir and illustrate them...

...evidence against either the strong or weak versions of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. Whorf's statement that "the world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of...means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds" was interpreted by Kay and McDaniel (1978: 610) as saying that "each language imposes on the individual's...

...world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-^and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our...minds. We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organise it in this...

...dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages . . . The world has ... to be organised in our minds - and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds. We cut nature up, organise it into concepts . . . largely because we are parties to an agreement to organise it in this...

...rational in the old sense, but is part of a particular grammar, and differs, from slightly to greatly, between different grammars. We dissect nature along...minds. 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...

...that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find there because they stare every observer m the face; on the contrary, the world is presented...minds. We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascnbe significances äs we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement that holds throughout...

...because they stare every observer in the face; on the contrary, the world is presented in a kaleidoscope flux of impressions which has to be organized by our...minds. 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...

...as: "We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages. . . . The world is presented as a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be...means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds" (p. 214). Not many scholars would endorse this claim in such extreme terms; there is now abundant evidence...