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Title: Whorf's postulate
Review: The model (theory) of the world that an intelligence will formdepends upon the particular representation used by the learner.(Machine Learning, Tom Mitchell, McGraw Hill, 1997, pgs 65-66)While this is rigorously true for the learner's INTERNALrepresentation (i.e. the language of thought) it will alsoapply to NATURAL languages that the agent employs to thedegree that reasoning is performed in the natural languageand/or to the degree to which the natural language mirrorsthe language of thought. This dependence of the learner'sunderstanding of the world on his language may help toexplain why translation between natural languages is sodifficult. Gentner and Goldin-Meadow's book does a goodjob of discussing current research in this area.
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