The Mind: Less Puzzling in Chinese? | Perry Link | The New York Review of Books

Are people who think in Indo-European languages better off because their languages lead them to a clear conceptualization of an important puzzle? Or are thinkers in Chinese better off because their language gets them through life equally well without the puzzle?

Visit us on Facebook! Opens External Webpage Visit us on Twitter! Opens External Webpage Visit us on Threads! Opens External Webpage Visit us on Bluesky! Opens External Webpage Mail to Print page People who study other cultures sometimes note that they benefit twice: first by learning about the other culture and second by realizing that certain assumptions of their own are arbitrary. In reading Colin McGinn's fine recent piece , "Groping Toward the Mind," in The New York Review , I was reminded of a question I had pondered in my 2013 book Anatomy of Chinese : whether some of the struggles in W

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