Re: trainlasting

erespess@inil.com
Mon, 18 Oct 1999 21:19:38 -0400

>Still, that statement is interesting to me.  Do you
>mean you believe that your experience of reality is
>pre-structured by linguistic thought processes?

Everyone's reality is shaped by their linguistic thought process.  Every
language is structured differently (some object based, some verb based,
etc.), and as we learn our respective languages, our veiw of the world is
colored by the way we learn to categorize.  The process of learning to name
things is incredibly influential.