On the other hand, Sapir explicitly rejected strong linguistic determinism by stating, " It would be na�ve to imagine that any analysis of experience is dependent on pattern expressed in language ."
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Linguistic determinism is the " strong " form of linguistic relativity ( popularly known as the Sapir Whorf hypothesis ), which argues that individuals experience the world based on the structure of the language they habitually use.
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Members of the early 20th-century school of American anthropology headed by Franz Boas and Edward Sapir also embraced forms of the idea to one extent or another, but Sapir in particular wrote more often against than in favor of anything like linguistic determinism.
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The claim is that the structure of a language somehow affects the way its speakers perceive their world, either strongly, in which case " language determines thought " ( linguistic determinism ), or weakly, in which case " language influences thought " ( linguistic relativity ) . ( For a list of languages that are merely mentioned, see the relevant section in List of constructed languages .)
