“This is just a long-winded way of saying that our worldview structures the way we think about the world ...”
Perhaps for you, and perhaps for others, but certainly not for all. It is a common mistake to assume that others think the same way you do.
My world view is the result or sum of all I think and learn about the world. To start with a “world-view” in one’s thinking is like trying to learn arithmetic from the rules of the calculus. One’s world view ought to come at the conclusion of one’s thinking, not the beginning. Attempting to start with a world view requires the acceptance of some such view before one has learned enough to know which world view to adopt.
I think it is a mistake to let that happen, but suspect most people do.
Hank
With that "ought," you not only describe, but privilege a particular world view. Being an "ought," it comes at the beginning of one's thinking, not at the end.
It seems to be quite a reductionist world view at that, suggesting that the "whole" is nothing more than the "sum of its parts" (i.e., "enough knowledge," such that at some threshold of "sufficiency," it can completely describe the whole of which the items of our knowledge are the parts. Question: How do we determine how much knowledge would be "sufficient" here?)
As Robert Rosen persuasively points out, the strategy of reductionism requires that any whole system can be decomposed into and regarded as a simple sum of its constituting parts. Yet such reduction irretrievably loses information about the whole system, specifically its structure of causal entailments. Rosen says it is a far more promising strategy to put the system under study into a "bigger system," or a larger context, in order to understand its behavior. In the context of our present discussion, this "larger system" would be a world view....
You wrote: "It is a common mistake to assume that others think the same way you do."
I assume that other people think as I do, but only in the sense that I'm a human being who thinks; and common sense tells me it is not an illegitimate reach to suppose that other human beings do likewise. I do not assume that other people "think the same way I do." Quite the contrary! (I'd be quite astonished to find out they did.) I just impute the ability to think to them, with no expectation that what they think about, or the conclusions they reach, are like my own thinking and results.