“Whorf’s logical weakness”
“Avoiding abstract terms was one way, Whorf thought, to avoid verbal problems; stressing activities over states was another” (8).
Berthoff’s “Sapir and the Two Tasks of Language” (part 1)
“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).
Berthoff’s “Sapir and the Two Tasks of Language” (Intro)
Berthoff, Ann E. “Sapir and the Two Tasks of Language.” Semiotica, vol. 71, no. 1/2, Sept. 1988, pp. 1-47.
