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The idea that "our world [is] parsed and circumscribed as it is by the limits of our vocabulary" is nuts. Just because there's not a one-to-one correspondence between a word in a language and a word in another, does not mean you can't express the same content through a combination of words and sentences.

The fact that the author was able to write this article and convey these concepts in English shows that the idea that vocabulary limits our experience is incoherent.

parent laretluval 10 years ago

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