Language, Thought, and Reality
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Language, Thought, and Reality is a posthumous collection of essays by linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf that presents his influential ideas on how language shapes human thought and perception.
All labels observed (1)
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| Language, Thought, and Reality canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Language, Thought, and Reality Context triple: [Benjamin Lee Whorf, notableWork, Language, Thought, and Reality]
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A.
The Meaning of Meaning
The Meaning of Meaning is a seminal 1923 work in semantics and the philosophy of language by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards that explores how language, symbols, and thought are related.
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Mind, Language and Reality
Mind, Language and Reality is a landmark collection of Hilary Putnam’s philosophical essays that helped shape contemporary debates in philosophy of mind, language, and metaphysics.
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The Language of Thought
The Language of Thought is a seminal philosophical and cognitive science work by Jerry Fodor that argues for an innate, mental "language" underlying human thought and reasoning.
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Language, Truth and Logic
Language, Truth and Logic is A.J. Ayer’s influential 1936 philosophical work that popularized logical positivism in the English-speaking world by arguing that meaningful statements are either empirically verifiable or tautological.
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E.
Modes of Thought
Modes of Thought is a later philosophical work by Alfred North Whitehead that further develops his process philosophy and reflections on science, metaphysics, and human experience.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Language, Thought, and Reality Target entity description: Language, Thought, and Reality is a posthumous collection of essays by linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf that presents his influential ideas on how language shapes human thought and perception.
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A.
The Meaning of Meaning
The Meaning of Meaning is a seminal 1923 work in semantics and the philosophy of language by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards that explores how language, symbols, and thought are related.
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B.
Mind, Language and Reality
Mind, Language and Reality is a landmark collection of Hilary Putnam’s philosophical essays that helped shape contemporary debates in philosophy of mind, language, and metaphysics.
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C.
The Language of Thought
The Language of Thought is a seminal philosophical and cognitive science work by Jerry Fodor that argues for an innate, mental "language" underlying human thought and reasoning.
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D.
Language, Truth and Logic
Language, Truth and Logic is A.J. Ayer’s influential 1936 philosophical work that popularized logical positivism in the English-speaking world by arguing that meaningful statements are either empirically verifiable or tautological.
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E.
Modes of Thought
Modes of Thought is a later philosophical work by Alfred North Whitehead that further develops his process philosophy and reflections on science, metaphysics, and human experience.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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essay collection ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
anthropology
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cognitive science ⓘ linguistics ⓘ |
| author | Benjamin Lee Whorf ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkOf | Edward Sapir ⓘ |
| centralThesis |
different languages lead to different ways of perceiving and conceptualizing the world
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structure of a language affects its speakers’ habitual thought ⓘ |
| containsEssayBy | Benjamin Lee Whorf ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| editor | John B. Carroll ⓘ |
| expandedEditionPublicationYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| expandedEditionPublisher | MIT Press ⓘ |
| genre |
anthology
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linguistics ⓘ philosophy of language ⓘ |
| hasEdition | expanded edition ⓘ |
| hasPart |
“An American Indian Model of the Universe”
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“Grammatical Categories” ⓘ “Languages and Logic” ⓘ “Science and Linguistics” ⓘ
linked to:
Science and Linguistics
“The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language” ⓘ |
| hasReception | highly influential in debates on linguistic relativity ⓘ |
| influenced |
anthropology
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cognitive linguistics ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ psycholinguistics ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
popularizing the idea that language influences thought
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systematic statement of Whorf’s theory of linguistic relativity ⓘ |
| publicationStatus | posthumous ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1956 ⓘ |
| publisher | MIT Press ⓘ |
| subject |
Native American languages
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Sapir–Whorf hypothesis ⓘ anthropological linguistics ⓘ linguistic relativity ⓘ relationship between language and thought ⓘ |
| subtitle | Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
philosophers of language
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scholars ⓘ students of linguistics ⓘ |
| timePeriodDiscussed | early 20th century linguistics ⓘ |
| title | Language, Thought, and Reality ⓘ |
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Subject: Language, Thought, and Reality Description of subject: Language, Thought, and Reality is a posthumous collection of essays by linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf that presents his influential ideas on how language shapes human thought and perception.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language
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Language, Thought, and Reality
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