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The cultural impact on our cognitive abilities is a common idea. It was recognized in XVIII-XIX centuries. The most significantly it can be seen in influence of our languege, because only through it and by it human inderstanding becomes possible. We think and intuite only though it. And its structure is those capadilities and limits we deals with in our understanding of the World.
For many primitive people their languege, for example, has no such a categories as time and for them there is not yeateday or tomorrow, they have only now and not now. There are a lot of other examples, how languege defines and reflects human understanding of the World he lives in.
Languege is dual by its relation to man. On the one hand it is internal for him and depends from him. We are creators of our languege because it exists through us and depends from our usege. On the other hand, it is external, because it is given for everybody from his born and from the very begining we get it as our only one tool of study the World. Thus, it is subjective and objective at the same time. And in it focuses all our cognitive abilities.
In this sense the objective knowledge of the World is as possible as objective our languege, but it is not only objective. So...
Boris.

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