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From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
Subject: Re: Archaic Greek/Eskimo
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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 20:55:38 GMT
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In article <3b2fv2$m1t@newsbf01.news.aol.com>,
Heraklitus <heraklitus@aol.com> wrote:
>The rationale for making the psychological assumption that the Eskimo sees
>our types of snow as different entities lies in the fact that they
>actually have different words for them.  

Not much of a rationale.  Does the fact that English speakers have two 
words "sleet" and "snow" mean that they see "different entities" here which
are "sensuously and operationally different"?  Or would an English speaker
just say that sleet is a kind of snow?

List of words prove nothing except that one owns a dictionary.  You need
rather more than that to show that "different entities" exist in the
worldview of the language speakers.
