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The belief that language has within it ways of looking at the world and defining reality is referred to as the?

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"The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is based on the idea that people experience their world through their language, and that they therefore understand their world through the culture embedded in their language. The hypothesis, which has also been called linguistic relativity, states that language shapes thought."
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