Re: Logical?

Maarten van Beek <dungeonmaster@...> wrote:
> > Van: John Cowan
> >
> > You betcha.  Kay and Kempton established that English-speakers
> > who are asked "Which is more like color chip A, color chip B or
> > color chip C?" consistently get the answer wrong because of
> > Whorfian lock-in.
>
> I am interested what objective criteria were used to say that e.g. color C
> more closely resembles color A than color B does. There are several ways
> to do this, and they giver different answers.
    I'm not sure what the answer to your question is, but keep in mind that
the relevant point WRT Sapir-Whorf is that there was a high correlation
between the answer given and the language spoken by the answerer.  It
doesn't really matter which of the two answers is "right" by some criterion.

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