...insistence that all semiosis involves thirdness, pointing out that communication implies generalization. The world of our experiences must be enormously simplified...associated with whole groups, delimited classes, of experiences rather than with the single experiences themselves. Only so is communication possible,...

...Wegbereiter dieser syntagmatisch-semantischen Betrachtungsweise auf S. 19f. The world of our expenences must be enormously simplified and generalized before...inventory is imperative before we can convey ideas (Sapir 1921, 12). We must cut to the bone of things, we must more or less arbitrarily throw whole masses...

...Sapir's statement that ". . . the elements of language, the symbols that ticket off experience, must ... be associated with whole groups, delimited classes,...rather than with the single experiences themselves." * And it is under this interpretation of language — which incidentally is the only interpretation...

...experiences must he enormously simplified and generalized hefore it is possihle to make a symholic inventory of all our experiences of things and relations and this inventory is imperative hefore we can convey ideas' (1949a [1921]: 12). A community of speakers must agree tacitly to a classification...

...live in. The same applies to abstract things like ideas, sensations, and emotions. As Sapir writes: 'The world of our experiences must be enormously simplified...inventory is imperative before we can convey ideas' (Sapir 1921, 12). And this is what language does for us. It conceptualizes our world and provides for...