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  2. Language and thought - Wikipedia

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    There is a strong and a weak version of the hypothesis which argue for more or less influence of language on thought. The strong version, linguistic determinism , argues that without language there is and can be no thought (a largely discredited idea), while the weak version, linguistic relativity , supports the idea that there are some ...

  3. Language of thought hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The language of thought hypothesis (LOTH), [1] sometimes known as thought ordered mental expression (TOME), [2] is a view in linguistics, philosophy of mind and cognitive science, forwarded by American philosopher Jerry Fodor. It describes the nature of thought as possessing "language-like" or compositional structure (sometimes known as ...

  4. Linguistic relativity and the color naming debate - Wikipedia

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    The concept of linguistic relativity concerns the relationship between language and thought, specifically whether language influences thought, and, if so, how.This question has led to research in multiple disciplines—including anthropology, cognitive science, linguistics, and philosophy.

  5. Linguistic determinism - Wikipedia

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    Linguistic determinism is the concept that language and its structures limit and determine human knowledge or thought, as well as thought processes such as categorization, memory, and perception. The term implies that people's native languages will affect their thought process and therefore people will have different thought processes based on ...

  6. Linguistic relativity - Wikipedia

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    For example, Pinker argues in The Language Instinct that thought is independent of language, that language is itself meaningless in any fundamental way to human thought, and that human beings do not even think in "natural" language, i.e. any language that we actually communicate in; rather, we think in a meta-language, preceding any natural ...

  7. Experimental language - Wikipedia

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    An experimental language is a constructed language designed for linguistics research, often on the relationship between language and thought. One particular assumption having received much attention in fiction is popularly known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis .

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  9. Cognitive distortion - Wikipedia

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    Emotion and memory – Critical factors contributing to the emotional enhancement effect on human memory; Illusion – Distortion of the perception of reality; Language and thought – Study of how language influences thought; List of cognitive biases; List of fallacies; Negativity bias – Tendency to give more importance to negative experiences