Lexicon of Arguments

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I 163
Explanation/reference/consciousness dependency/HackingVsWhorf: the use of different snow words does not prove that the existence of snow types is independent of the fact that someone is thinking of powder snow.
((s) Word usage anyway does not equal thinking independently! And existence does not follow from word usage.)
>Sapir-Whorf-thesis, >Language use, >Word meaning.
Hacking: but this only shows that it does not follow that our categories are dependent on consciousness.
>Categories, >Categorization, >Classification, >Consciousness, >World/thinking.

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