...be organized by our minds — and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds. . . . No individual is free to describe nature with absolute...interpretation even while he thinks himself most free. (1956, pp. 153, 213-14) Many linguists were intrigued by the work of Whorf and Sapir, even as many...

...community and is codified in the patterns of our language. . . . This fact is very significant for modern science, for it means that no individual is free to...interpretation even while he thinks himself most free. — Benjamin Lee Whorf, "Science and Linguistics" These quotations direct our attention to two premises...

...except by subscribing to the organization and classification of data which the agreement decrees. . . . No individual is free to describe nature with absolute...interpretation even while he thinks himself most free. (Emphasis in original; 1956: 213-14) Whorf 's image of the "agreement" sounds more like a social contract...

...organisation and classification of data in order to communicate verbally) is very significant for modem science, for it means that no individual is free to...certain modes of interpretation even while he thinks himselfmostfree.» Dans ce contexte, la RST doit fournir un mode de définition suffisamment explicite...

...festgehalten werden: Die Konstituierung von Sachverhalten ist erstens nicht eine Sache des Individuums: »No individual is free to describe nature with absolute...impartiality, but is constrained to certain modes of interpretations even while he thinks himself most free« (BL Whorf, Science and Linguistics, 214)....

...agreement is, of course, an implicit and unstated one, BUT ITS TERMS ARE ABSOLUTELY OBLIGATORY ... It means that no individual is free to describe nature...interpretation even while he thinks himself most free ... (Whorf 1940/1956: 213-14) Whorf was not an academic but a fire-inspection engineer. He wrote intuitive...

...organization and classification of data which the agreement decrees. This fact is very significant for modern science, for it means that no individual is free to...most nearly free in such respects would be a linguist familiär with very many widely different linguistic Systems. As yet no linguist is in such a position....

...published in 1955, Whorf demonstrates through a comparative analysis of English, Navaho, and Hopi languages that "no individual is free to describe nature with...interpretation even while he thinks himself most free." Whorf introduced into linguistics a new principle of relativity which holds that all observers are...

...Wichtigkeit der Sprache und der Sprachwissenschaft deutlich machen wollte. Die Stelle lautet: „ ... no individual is free to describe nature with absolute...interpretation even while he thinks himself most free. [. . .] We are thus introduced to a new principle of relativity, which holds that all observers are...

...that propounded by Sapir. Whorf's principle of relativity (1940, in Carroll 1956: 214) says merely that No individual is free to describe nature with...is constrained to certain modes of interpretation. . . . All observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe,...