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| 3914 | Language arranges sensory experience to form a world-order |
| Full Idea: Language first of all is a classification and arrangement of the stream of sensory experience which results in a certain world-order. | |||
| From: Benjamin Lee Whorf (Punctual and segmentive Hopi verbs [1936], p.55) | |||
| A reaction: This is only true to a limited degree. See Davidson's 'On the very idea of a conceptual scheme'. All humans share a world-order, to some extent. |