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    Language relativity is not a form of relative identity. — Carmelics
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    Language relativity is not a form of relative identity.

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    • 1.Language relativity is a model-theoretic phenomenon that is a matter of definability in a structure.
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    • 2.To make sense of language relativity, we must start with a pair of objects a and b that are distinct from the standpoint of the metalanguage.
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    • 3.Describing the phenomenon of language relativity requires assuming that the objects a and b are already individuated and absolutely distinct.
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    Third, the phenomenon of language relativity (in the technical sense discussed in §1) has led many philosophers, including Geach, to the view that ideology creates ontology. There is no antecedently given domain of objects, already individuated, and waiting to be described. Instead, theories carve up the world in various ways, rendering some things noticeably distinct and others indiscernible, depending on a theory’s descriptive resources. The very notion of object is theory-bound (Kraut 1980).
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