Conceptual Implications of an Indian Language
- 1 January 1938
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy of Science
- Vol. 5 (1) , 89-102
- https://doi.org/10.1086/286489
Abstract
It has been said that a language will delineate and limit the logical concepts of the individual who speaks it. Conversely, a language is an organ for the expression of thought, of concepts and principles of classification. True enough, the thought of the individual must run along its grooves; but these grooves, themselves, are a heritage from individuals who laid them down in an unconscious effort to express their attitude toward the world. Grammar contains in crystallized form the accumulated and accumulating experience, the Weltanschauung of a people.Keywords
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