Lost In Translation is a summary of recent research on language and its impact on our thinking by Lera Boroditsky (Professor of psychology at Stanford University and editor in chief of Frontiers in Cultural Psychology).
Read the article for the details but concepts such as causality, space and others aren’t as fixed as you may have thought.
Another teaser:
It turns out that if you change how people talk, that changes how they think. If people learn another language, they inadvertently also learn a new way of looking at the world. When bilingual people switch from one language to another, they start thinking differently, too.
Topic maps show different ways to identify the same subject. Put enough alternative identifications together and you will learn to think in another language.
Question: Should topic maps come with the following warning?
Caution: Topic Map – You May Start Thinking Differently