That language separates the world.
Humans carve up the real world according to a “conceptual unit” called a “seigneura. And that carving is not universal. … The speakers of each language arbitrarily choose which differences to distinguish and which to ignore… Saussure proposed linguistic relativity that “each national language has a mutually distinct and unique world image.” This act of arbitrarily creating a collection of lines is called segmentation. https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/フェルディナン de Saussure
2023-12-20 merged segmentation - The concept of double division in [Saussure - Humans ignore some differences and focus on some differences - It thereby divides what could actually be a continuous value into several sets - Perhaps due to cognitive limitations. - In short, [vector quantization - This is articulation, segmentation - phonological segment - e.g. I only focus on what I distinguish.. - semantic segment - Carving up the world according to conceptual units
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