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In his paper entitled Catégories de pensée et catégories de langue written in 1958, Émile Benveniste criticized the deeply entrenched notion that thought and language are two fundamentally different activities. Through linguistic analysis, Benveniste argued that Aristotle's categories of thought reflect the grammatical structure of ancient Greek, his native language. His argument was criticized by many philosophers, most notably Jacques Derrida, for being an example of linguistic determinism, which sparked fierce controversies. However, this criticism appears to fundamentally misread Benveniste's linguistic stance on the relationship between thought and language. By reviewing other papers written by Benveniste regarding the relationship between thought and language, this study demonstrates that thought is not language from his perspective and must be understood independently of individual linguistic structures. As such, Benveniste did not argue for linguistic determinism, which reminds us of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
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Aristotle's Categories, Benveniste, thought, language, linguistic determinism
