In the 1950s, the anthropologist Benjamin Whorf argued that our language determines the possible range of our thoughts. In subsequent decades, Whorf's theories:
A) have been repeatedly supported, with examples coming from many different content areas
B) have been supported by the discovery that different cultures describe spatial arrangements in different ways and seem unable to learn new ways to describe these arrangements
C) have found little specific support, with the implication that language may guide our thoughts and memories but does not influence what it's possible for us to think
D) seem correct for some domains (e.g., color perception) but not for other domains (e.g., thinking about spatial relations)
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