PSY 357 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Eleanor Rosch, Ingsoc, Fuck
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Our thoughts and language are influenced by each other and the world: not true, we couldn"t have thought without language, all thoughts are first coded as language. Intellectually free, than, for instance, a person who had never heard of chess would be aware of the secondary meanings attached to queen and rook. There would be many crimes and errors which it would be beyond his power to commit, simply because they were nameless and therefore unimaginable. Linguistic determinism: linguistic determinism: an idea dating back to ancient greece, and later behaviorists. Thought is determined by language: all thoughts must first be words. There is no such thing as thought: plato: thinking = inner speech. Sapir-whorf hypothesis: rainbow (colors) the only reason we see colors as different from each other is because we have words to name them o, two theoretical components: People"s thoughts, perceptions, and memories are determined by the categories and structures made available by language.
