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Opposing Views
•Few believe that language determines thought, influence likely…but doesn’t mean language=thought
•Visual view
–Arnheim: “I see no way of withholding the name ‘thinking’ from what goes on in perception.” [Visual Thinking, p.14]
–Findings in perception, neuroscience (next lectures)
•Non-senses-based, non-language view
–Stephen Pinker: Idea of “mentalese”
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Example: we share language with people of different religions in this country but not same world-view: people from universities, speaking same language, with some believing in evolution, others in literal bible explanation of creationism.