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14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 4. Paradigm

3917	Scientific thought is essentially a specialised part of Indo-European languages [Whorf]
	Full Idea: What we call "scientific thought" is a specialisation of the western Indo-European type of language.
	From: Benjamin Lee Whorf (An American Indian model of the Universe [1936], p.246)
	A reaction: This is the beginnings of an absurd extreme relativist view of science, based on a confusion about meaning and thought.