The Word That Makes the World
On what lies at the edge of the sayable, what mystics, poets, and mathematicians do when language fails, and what the silence at the limit of the speakable reveals about the nature of mind and the nature of reality
The Word That Makes the World
On David Bohm's proposal for a new mode of language built for process rather than things, why he believed subject-object grammar encodes a fragmentary worldview, and what a language adequate to the implicate order would have to be able to do
The Word That Makes the World
On the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis — the claim that the language you speak shapes the thoughts you can think — the evidence that has accumulated, the limits that have been established, and why the weak version is more interesting than the strong one
The Word That Makes the World
On the empirical evidence for linguistic relativity across color perception, time, number, and spatial cognition — and what it means that the basic categories of human experience are not universal but vary with the language community