The hypothesis of linguistic determinism is now generally agreed to be false.
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It's not obvious because of linguistic determinism.
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The possibility of linguistic determinism has been explored by a variety of authors, mostly in science fiction.
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This is similar to the notion of linguistic determinism, which states that the form of language determines individual thought.
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The strongest form of the theory is linguistic determinism, which holds that language entirely determines the range of cognitive processes.
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Linguistic determinism claims that our language determines ( at least limits ) the things we can think and say and thus know.
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In the lingustic relativity article, there is a mention of Newspeak from Orwell's novel nineteen eighty-four, and how it related to linguistic determinism.
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Brown's formulations became widely known and were retrospectively attributed to Whorf and Sapir although the second formulation, verging on linguistic determinism, was never advanced by either of them.
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:Well, just to give a bit of a devil's advocate response to Diderot's comment above, I would like to point to linguistic determinism, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and related topics.
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This argument was used to put down the " linguistic determinism " of Edward Sapir of Yale and his disciple Benjamin Lee Whorf, dominant language theorists of the recent past.