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"All the other Ways of Knowing are controlled by language" What does this statement mean and do you think it is a fair representation of the relationship between perception, emotion, reason and language?
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Banu Thuraisingam "All the other Ways of Knowing are controlled by language" What does this statement mean and do you think it is a fair representation of the relationship between perception, emotion, reason and language? "All the other ways of knowing are controlled by Language." This quote implies that perception, emotion and reasoning are all dependent on language. Two men by the names of Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf undoubtedly believed so. Their hypothesis essentially states that what we think is determined by our language. However I believe that all the four ways of knowing are dependent on each other. Certainly language does influence us but it does not restrict perception, emotion and reason. A man named Wilhelm von Humboldt, who formulated the 'Weltanschauung' hypothesis, viewed thought as being impossible without language, language as a completely determining thought, which is a more extreme version of the...
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