...nature is an aspect of grammar — one as yet little studied by grammarians. We_ciiLiip.And prgajaize the spread and flow of events as we do largely because, through ouF inblher tongue, we are parties to an agreement to do so, not because nature itself is segmented...

...Review, segmentation of nature is an aspect of grammar— one as yet little studied by grammarians. We cut up and organize the spread and flow of events...differ not only in how they build their sentences but also in how they break down nature to secure the elements to put in those sentences. This breakdown...

...formation is revealed" (5, vol. 3, p. 15). And Whorf: "Segmentation of nature is an aspect of grammar. We cut up and organize the spread and flow of events...parties to an agreement to do so, not because nature is segmented in exactly that way for all to see" (21, p. 240). As an illustration of the theory, Herder...

...universals: Segmentation of nature is an aspect of grammar - one as yet little studied by grammarians. We cut up and organize the spread and flow of events...differ not only in how they build their sentences but also in how they break down nature to secure the elements to put in those sentences. . . . And it will...

...break up the kaleidoscope of experience into objects and entities about which to make sentences. We cut up and organize the spread and flow of events...because nature itself is segmented in exactly that way. . . . English terms, like "sky," "hill," "swamp," persuade us to regard some elusive aspect of nature's...

...thesis: Every language binds the thoughts of its speakers by the involuntary patterns of its grammar. .. Languages differ not only in how they build their sentences but in how they break down nature into the elements to put into those statements. . . . For example, English terms, like "sky", "hill,"...

...and communication consists in describing it while thinking. CHAPTER 2 Planek as Reader (Nietzsehe) We cut up and organize the spread and flow of events...itself is segmented in exactly that way for all to sec. . . . The real question is: What do different languages do, not with these artificially isolated...

...man's dualisms. Again, in the words of Whorf: Segmentation of nature is an aspect of grammar. . . . We cut up and organize the spread and flow of events...itself is segmented in exactly that way for all to see. . . . We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages. The categories and types that...

...can in some way be calibrated.' We 'dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages'; we 'cut up and organize the spread and flow of events...is segmented in exactly that way for all to see'. Whorf also speaks of 'possible new types of logic' and even claims that 'science CAN have a rational...

...a relati vistic one and not Mr. Everyman's natural logic. Languages and Logic (1941) 1956:239. 2 We cut up and organize the spread and flow of events...differ not only in how they build their sentences but also in how they break down nature to secure the elements to put in those sentences. Languages and...