 | Astronomy - 1977 - 306 pages
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 | Benjamin Lee Whorf - Language and languages - 1950 - 60 pages
...with very many widely different linguistic systems. As yet no linguist even is in any such position. We are thus introduced to a new principle of relativity,...backgrounds are similar, or can in some way be calibrated. This rather startling conclusion is not so apparent if we compare only our modern European languages,... | |
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We are thus introduced to a new principle of relativity, which holds that all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar, or can in some way be calibrated. 
