PSY270H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Code, Color Vision
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There are three different terms which mean the same thing. These structures are very different for different languages. Whorfian hypothesis is named after benjamin lee whorf. English but the inuit"s have about 4 or 5 words. They don"t have present, past and future tense and their time space is also different. According to this, the language you have is how you think about something. This suggests that language determines thought to most of the extent but not solely on this. An easily expressed concept may be more available to the cognitive system than less expressed concepts. There is some anecdotal evidence for the weak version. The roman number system is hard to use compared to the arabic number system because in the roman numeral due to the fact that its longer. The arabic numbers are attached to the bus digit and shorter to write and understand than the roman.
