Cognitive Anthropology / Linguistic Relativity

Boas, Sapir and Whorf on language shaping thought; Sapir's grading (1944); Berlin and Kay's evolutionary order of basic colour terms (1969). In RENAISSANCE 3.0 the empirical prior art for the genesis of a caregory: the poles are lexicalised before the middle, and grading precedes counting.

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