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13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 5. Language Relativism

3914	Language arranges sensory experience to form a world-order [Whorf]
	Full Idea: Language first of all is a classification and arrangement of the stream of sensory experience which results in a certain world-order.
	From: Benjamin Lee Whorf (Punctual and segmentive Hopi verbs [1936], p.55)
	A reaction: This is only true to a limited degree. See Davidson's 'On the very idea of a conceptual scheme'. All humans share a world-order, to some extent.