The Sapir Whorf hypothesis (language defines what we can perceive and think) is mostly wrong for natural language, but true for programming. Computer languages don't differ in what they can do but in how they let us think.
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Replying to @Plinz
why is it mostly wrong for natural languages? perhaps wrong for qualitative concepts but not quantitative? for example the ability to discern colors increasing with language's resolution of color names.
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I think the ability to discern colors depends mostly on types of color receptors and practice, with resolution of color names in a given group probably being confounded by practice. But I would expect color names to strongly influence category prototypes.
2:21 PM - 19 Apr 2018
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