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• Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
• Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
• We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement…
• A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos.
• Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire…
• Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.
• Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.
• We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.
• But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to…
• My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and…

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