We are thus introduced to a new principle of relativity, which holds that all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar, or can in some way be calibrated. Collected Papers on Metalinguistics - Página 5por Benjamin Lee Whorf - 1952 - 52 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Benjamin Lee Whorf - 1950 - 60 páginas
...all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar, or can in...compare only our modern European languages, with perhaps I .at iu and Greek thrown in for good measure. ?si- I r it Among these tongues there is a unanimity... | |
| Benjamin Lee Whorf - 1956 - 302 páginas
...all observers arc not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar, or can in some way be calibrated. Indo-European languages can be roughly calibrated— English, French, German, Russian, Latin, Greek,... | |
| David D. Laitin - 1977 - 296 páginas
...all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar, or can in some way be calibrated"; and "that users of markedly different grammars are pointed by their grammars toward different types... | |
| Marc De Mey - 1992 - 350 páginas
..."All observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar, or can in some way be calibrated" (quoted in Carroll, 1956, p. 214). Notes Chapter Seven 1 Not all critics have welcomed Kuhn's 1969... | |
| Andrew U. Frank, Irene Campari - 1993 - 500 páginas
...all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar, or can in some way be calibrated. (Whorf, 1940, pp. 213-214.) Standards for the semantic aspects of digital data represent an even more... | |
| Rudy Hirschheim, Heinz K. Klein, Kalle Lyytinen - 1995 - 316 páginas
...all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar, or can in some way be calibrated. (Chase 1956, p. v). If planners, developers and users do not interact and find ways of sharing their... | |
| Peter Hamilton - 1995 - 408 páginas
...'all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar, or can in some way be calibrated.' We 'dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages'; we 'cut up and organize the spread... | |
| John J. Gumperz, Stephen C. Levinson - 1996 - 504 páginas
...all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar, or can in some way be calibrated. (1956:214) The boldness of Whorf's formulation prompted a succession of empirical studies in America... | |
| John Preston - 1997 - 260 páginas
...'all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar, or can in some way be calibrated' (ibid., p. 214). My view of concept-acquisition makes language the independent variable, mind the dependent... | |
| Benjamin Lee - 1997 - 398 páginas
...all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar, or can in some way be calibrated. (Whorf 1956, 214) With such a calibration, science could then ground its claim to understanding reality.... | |
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