But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.
Speech is the best show a man puts on. - Benjamin Lee Whorf
Speech is the best show a man puts on.
- Benjamin Lee Whorf
My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork… - Benjamin Lee Whorf
My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork…
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic s… - Benjamin Lee Whorf
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic s…
The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of… - Benjamin Lee Whorf
The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of…
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. - Benjamin Lee Whorf
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in thi… - Benjamin Lee Whorf
We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in thi…
But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a fact… - Benjamin Lee Whorf
But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a fact…
Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft. - Benjamin Lee Whorf
Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.
The world that is coming toward us out of time is going to be very much richer in a mental sense because (among other freedoms) we are going to get a… - Benjamin Lee Whorf
The world that is coming toward us out of time is going to be very much richer in a mental sense because (among other freedoms) we are going to get a…
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