We Cut Nature Up, Organize It Into Concepts, And Ascribe Significances As We Do

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We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as
we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in
this way - an agreement that holds through our speech community and is
codified in the patterns of our language.
-- Benjamin Lee Whorf

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