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According to its strongest interpretation, the hypothesis implies linguistic conceptual relativism, or "linguistic relativity," the idea that language so completely determines the thoughts of its users that there can be no common conceptual scheme between people speaking different languages.
If that is right and if actions are apparently "caused" by thoughts (by particular beliefs and desires), then it follows that actions are not caused solely by our conscious mental states, but rather by whatever it is (i.e., type-facts) that determines the thoughts that enter consciousness.
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You may not completely buy the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis – the deliciously sci-fi name given by linguists to the idea that the words we use determine the thoughts we think.
In "Overthinking," Sala seeks the help of a psychic to determine the thoughts of a dead artist; sitting at a patio table on a blustery day, the medium offers generalizations that are more or less useless in assessing the question at hand.
In this study, it is aimed to determine the thoughts of students and their sensations for construction course in the first year of architectural education.
The premise of the archaeological method is that systems of thought and knowledge (epistemes or discursive formations, in Foucault's terminology) are governed by rules, beyond those of grammar and logic, that operate beneath the consciousness of individual subjects and define a system of conceptual possibilities that determines the boundaries of thought in a given domain and period.
So, for example, a basic form of associationism (such as Hume's) might claim that the frequency with which an organism has come into contact with Xs and Ys in one's environment determines the frequency with which thoughts about Xs and thoughts about Ys will arise together in the organism's future.
What determines the broad content of their thoughts is not merely the environment they are in at the moment, but also the environment in which they first acquired their thoughts and beliefs about watery stuff.
The descriptive content expressed by an indexical in a context is determined by the thoughts and intentions of the agent/speaker of the context.
For 200 years, there have been two schools of thought about what determines the distribution of income – and how the economy functions.
Our own personal experiences will determine the methods and thoughts that we adopt.
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