If we used a different vocabulary or if we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
• Randy Allen Harris, in Rhetoric and Incommensurability (2005), p. 35, and an endnote on p. 138 indicates the misattribution seems to have originated in a misreading of quotes in Patterns Of Discovery: An Inquiry Into The Conceptual Foundations of Science (1958) by Norwood Russell Hanson, where an actual quotation of WIttgenstein on p. 184 is followed by one from the book on psychology.
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world." in the context of "This actually first appears in Recent Experiments in Psychology (1950) by Leland Whitney Crafts, Théodore Christian Schneirla, and Elsa Elizabeth Robinson, where it is expressed:
If we used a different vocabulary or if we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
• Randy Allen Harris, in Rhetoric and Incommensurability (2005), p. 35, and an endnote on p. 138 indicates the misattribution seems to have originated in a misreading of quotes in Patterns Of Discovery: An Inquiry Into The Conceptual Foundations of Science (1958) by Norwood Russell Hanson, where an actual quotation of WIttgenstein on p. 184 is followed by one from the book on psychology." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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