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12 Untranslatable Words (and Their Translations) | David Shariatmadari | Commentisfree | The Guardian
Sapir-whorf hypothesis
These examples of “untranslatability” are all wrong or just silly in their various ways. But it’s hard to shake off the feeling that there’s some truth in the idea that speaking a different language makes you see the world slightly differently: as though wearing tinted glasses…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Language gives numbers their power
development cognitive psychologist Elizabeth Spelke calls this the “compositionality power” of language. It allows us to take the approximate sense of numerosity we are all born with and make sets out of the individual objects we estimate.43 Noam Chomsky has long claimed that…
Cartesian Linguistics - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Cartesian linguistics
Cartesian linguistics refers to a form of linguistics developed during the time of René Descartes, a prominent 17th century philosopher whose ideas continue to influence modern philosophy. Chomsky's book, Cartesian Linguistics, manages to trace the development of linguistic…