tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14626538.post2073164372537066151..comments2024-03-27T03:46:20.901-06:00Comments on Thirty letters in my name: Does language shape our worldview?Harihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12339987786745985294noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14626538.post-86125591686873134952022-01-08T11:41:00.986-06:002022-01-08T11:41:00.986-06:00Thank you foor sharingThank you foor sharingMarilynhttps://www.marilynhanson.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14626538.post-21742708737985930182012-05-21T18:53:47.803-06:002012-05-21T18:53:47.803-06:00Thomas Marley -- You raise some excellent points. ...Thomas Marley -- You raise some excellent points. I concede that I did not rigorously think through what is being claimed when I posted this piece; I was carried away by the novelty of the claim.Harihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339987786745985294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14626538.post-76698849238258183452012-05-21T18:33:48.246-06:002012-05-21T18:33:48.246-06:00So many fallacious arguments here I find it is dif...So many fallacious arguments here I find it is difficult to finish reading even such a brief post. The basis of all your faulty argumentation is a classic "after this, therefore because of this" fallacy. Just because a different culture's lanugage is different from ours and so is their worldview, it does not follow that the language is creating their worldview. Did you not ever consider that the language rather reflects the customs of a culture?<br /><br />Imagine we all (English speakers) decide to form a club together where we all speak in terms of cardinal directions instead of relative ones (left, right, etc.). And we do this all the time. Are we not speaking English? Of course we are. But would we not be much more "spatially aware"? Yes, that too, of course. In the same way, is it not much more likely that the Kuuk Thaayorre are speaking in terms of their worldview? How do you even come close to justifying the causal directionality of your conclusion, that is, the far, far bolder hypothesis that it is their language which shapes their worldview. Similarly, if you taught a child to read books in English from left to right surely she would arrange the cards in the same way as the Hebrew speakers. In no way does it follow that they think of time in a different way.<br />I very much agree with the previous poster that this is fascinating stuff. Yet I think you would do better to review the basics of argumentation before you make such claims.Thomas Marleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14626538.post-21576103264990860572012-05-21T18:32:13.749-06:002012-05-21T18:32:13.749-06:00so many fallacious arguments here it is difficult ...so many fallacious arguments here it is difficult to finish. The basis of all of them are a classic "after this, therefore because of this" fallacy. Just because a different culture's lanugage is different from ours and so is their worldview, it does not follow that the language is <i>creating</i> their worldview. Did you not ever consider that the language rather reflects the customs of a culture?<br /><br />Imagine we all (English speakers) decide to form a club together where we all speak in terms of cardinal directions instead of relative ones (left, right, etc.). And we do this all the time. Are we not speaking English? Of course we are. But would we not be much more "spatially aware"? Yes, that too, of course. In the same way, is it not much more likely that the Kuuk Thaayorre are speaking in terms of their worldview? How do you even come close to justifying the causal directionality of your conclusion, that is, the far, far bolder hypothesis that it is their language which shapes their worldview. Similarly, if you taught a child to read books in English from left to right surely she would arrange the cards in the same way as the Hebrew speakers. In no way does it follow that they think of time in a different way.<br />I very much agree with the previous poster that this is fascinating stuff. Yet I think you would do better to review the basics of argumentation before you make such claims.Thomas Marleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14626538.post-45324636981726546462009-07-13T06:14:50.468-06:002009-07-13T06:14:50.468-06:00In Central Travancore, I have observed people spea...In Central Travancore, I have observed people speak in a similar way. In Malayalam.Slogan Muruganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13662487161611120966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14626538.post-75243358965061910072009-06-30T01:38:28.247-06:002009-06-30T01:38:28.247-06:00Fascinating stuff !Fascinating stuff !Krishnanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06642369297736205420noreply@blogger.com