Re: OT: Helen Keller & Whorf-Sapir

Samuel Rivier scripsit:

> I'm a physics and math and linguistics major, and I
> will testify that every engineer thinks First with his
> senses (images), Second with numbers and logic, and
> Finally with what little logic we can convey
> linguistically.
I'm an engineer too, and I don't have an image anywhere in my head.
For me, computer programming is a verbal discipline, not mathematical.

> Thought is first and foremost empirical - we imagine
> the abstract--what was and what might be--through our
> senses first. The language part comes along to
> organize it later.
Well, some people do, absolutely.  There's no reason to think
we're all wired up the same way, and some reason to think otherwise.

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