That language separates the world.
Humans carve up the real world according to a "conceptual unit" called a "seigneura. And that carving is not universal. ... The speakers of each language arbitrarily choose which differences to distinguish and which to ignore... Saussure proposed linguistic relativity that "each national language has a mutually distinct and unique world image." This act of arbitrarily creating a collection of lines is called segmentation. https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/フェルディナン de Saussure
2023-12-20 merged segmentation - The concept of double division in [Saussure - Humans ignore some differences and focus on some differences - It thereby divides what could actually be a continuous value into several sets - Perhaps due to cognitive limitations. - In short, [vector quantization - This is articulation, segmentation - phonological segment - e.g. I only focus on what I distinguish.. - semantic segment - Carving up the world according to conceptual units
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