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The Sepir Warf Hypothesis Is a Version of the Gladstone Theory
In the mid 19th century, people thought that Gladstone had gone off the deep end with this theory of cultural variation and color perception. And even though it was mocked, the theory never really went away as you point out. It kind of disappeared for some time. But then it's experiencing this rebirth because it is true that when you look at Homeric texts, you get the sense that the Greeks just didn't cut up the color spectrum in the same way that we do.
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