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    It is not the case that Languages mold our views of the world, and different languages do so differently

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    • 1.Chomsky's universal grammar thesis holds that all human languages share deep structural properties rooted in innate cognitive architecture.
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    • 2.If a universal generative grammar underlies all languages, surface lexical differences cannot fundamentally mold distinct world-views at the cognitive level.
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    • 3.Cross-linguistic translation, while imperfect, is sufficiently achievable to indicate that speakers of different languages access a shared conceptual space.
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    • 1.Whorf's Hopi data has been empirically refuted: Malotki (1983) documented extensive tense and time reference in Hopi grammar and culture.
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    • 2.A hypothesis built on demonstrably false ethnolinguistic data cannot serve as evidence for the broader claim that language structures cognition.
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    • 1.Ethnographic evidence from American Indian languages such as Hopi shows that linguistic structures vary significantly across language families
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    • 2.Speakers dissect nature along lines laid down by their native languages
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