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89 | Lera Boroditsky on Language, Thought, Space, and Time
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Importance of Time
In space, it matters because there's a fixed ground against which we're moving. In time, you only go in one direction. A lot of cultures do go in circles. So they linguistically talk about it that way. Well, certainly people draw diagrams of time that are circular or at least imply a spiral. There are definitely cycles in nature. But in general, I have described a lot of things that sound linear. And part of that might be an artifact of the measurement,. so when you're measuring how people think about time, you give them some cards to lay out and they give you a line. It's possible that what you're looking at is a small part of a
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