Is seeing believing?

Seeing is an important feature  to believing. when people don't see they may not fully believe. this can be explained in an example like when a person hears about an event but has not been there to see what happened may not fully believe the person that told him about the event. another example is when people often say 'show me', they want to see it in order to believe that it is true . However does believing what you see means that it is true? not necessarily. When the media shows pictures of hurt people and children, the viewers mostly believe and assume that what is said is true even without knowing what really happened. this can be an example that what we see is not necessarily the truth. Also seeing can change other perceptions; it is very easy to trick a persons sense of taste by changing the colours of food and drinks. This shows us how unreliable our sense of vision can be. We believe things using past experiences and memories and therefore relating the present to the past. A person may know that green food and drinks are not normal and therefore may taste it differently than what it actually is.

language and thought

Does a language shape how you think?
There are many ways in which a language can shape how you think. one way is the amount of words and adjectives we know. the more adjectives we know the more we are able to express ourselves and describe things around us and the more extensive we can think. Another way is the way the language associates with words. for example many languages make objects either feminine or masculine. This makes the language speaker to think as the object in a certain way. Also some languages have different tones for different objects which also effects the speakers thinking about the object. Moreover there are different ways in which different languages describe directions (south, north, west, east or left and right) this affects the way people think and see the environment and the see world. 

Can a concept exist without words to describe it?
This can be argued on. however a tribe called Amondawa has a language that lacks any terms that associate with time or space. there are no words for ages or dates or even directions however it does not mean that the people of the tribe do not have a sense of time or space they just did not have technologies such as calenders to make the concept have actual words.


identify the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and its limits

Sapir Whorf's hypothesis states that 'languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey'. There are many different language spoken around the world and each language is structured differently. This affects our perception on the environment, people, objects and concepts like time and space. it affects our view on the whole world.