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-====== An American Indian Model of the Universe ======+====== An American Indian Model of the Universe by Benjamin Lee Whorf======
  
 ====== Important Ideas ====== ====== Important Ideas ======
  
-  * Linguistic Determinism: The way we think, the way we categorize, compartmentalize, and compare information is determined by the patterns of our primary language. This can be seen by observing differences in patterns between languages of different families. This is also known as the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. (Whorf 191-192)+  * Linguistic Determinism: The way we think, the way we categorize, compartmentalize, and compare information is determined by the patterns of our primary language. This can be seen by observing differences in patterns between languages of different families. This is also known as the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (Whorf 191-192). In other words, in the vein of Sapir and Whorf, language shapes and restricts thought processes and shapes how individuals view the world around them.  
  
  
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 ===== Introduction of the Article and Purpose of the Article ===== ===== Introduction of the Article and Purpose of the Article =====
  
-People of the Hopi tribe, according to Whorf on page 192, exhibit no sense of time as a linear, flowing concept. This is seen in the Hopi language as well, as “the Hopi language contains no reference to ‘time,’ either explicit or implicit”. Hopi language has a metaphysical system of its own, unrelated to the time-vs.-space model and general relativity models we use. Whorf aims to make the Hopi metaphysical system understandable to the audience through English language approximation. (Whorf 192)+People of the Hopi tribe, according to Whorf on page 192, exhibit no sense of time as a linear, flowing concept. This is seen in the Hopi language as well, as “the Hopi language contains no reference to ‘time,’ either explicit or implicit”. Hopi language has a metaphysical system of its own, unrelated to the time-vs.-space model and general relativity models we use. Whorf aims to make the Hopi metaphysical system understandable to the audience through English language approximation (Whorf 192).
  
  
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   * Manifest includes, to use English approximation, both the present and past (with no real delineation between them) and everything experienced by our senses.   * Manifest includes, to use English approximation, both the present and past (with no real delineation between them) and everything experienced by our senses.
-  * Manifesting includes not only the future, but everything that exists only in the heart (in our minds, to use English approximation).+  * Manifesting includes not only the future, but everything that exists only in the heart (in our minds, to use English approximation). It should also be noted that this accounts not only for the hearts of humans, but also the hearts of animals, plants, etc.- to the point that it also accounts for the creative, driving force of the universe. 
  
  
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