“Correlation, connection, correspondence” (5)
“Trained as an engineer, Whorf had a hard-headed, mechanistic sense of causality and an impatient disregard for the metaphysical aspects of language” (4).
Positivism
Reading a bit about The Positivists and thinking about this:
| Soul | Body |
| Spirit | Material |
| Religion | Science |
| Gray | Black/White |
| Subjective | Objective |
| Theory | Fact (verification) |
| Metaphysics | Positivism |
| Language | Math |
