According to a thesis I call the linguistic assumption, the structure of language is a guide to the fundamental nature of reality. It is deployed in the metaphysical debate over the nature of time. In that debate, it is more radical than the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, and should be rejected. A weak interpretation of the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis makes the empirical claim that speakers of different languages experience, perceive, or think about aspects of the world differently. I survey recent experimental evidence that supports this hypothesis which, I argue, gives us further reason to reject the linguistic assumption.

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弱新沃尔夫主义与时间哲学

根据我称之为语言假设的论文，语言的结构是对现实基本性质的指导。它被部署在关于时间性质的形而上学辩论中。在那场辩论中，它比 Sapir-Whorf 假设更激进，应该被拒绝。对 Sapir-Whorf 假设的弱解释使得不同语言的说话者体验、感知或思考世界的各个方面的经验主张不同。我调查了最近支持这一假设的实验证据，我认为，这给了我们进一步拒绝语言假设的理由。