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While I think this is a really interesting topic, it should also be self evident because of a simple fact. Humans developed language long after our species evol

While I think this is a really interesting topic, it should also be self evident because of a simple fact. Humans developed language long after our species evolved. The most recent estimates put the development of language at as recently as 40,000 years ago. It'd be impossible to 'invent' language without thought, so therefore it must be the case that thought exists independently of language.

tanepiper 2y ago
The problem here is you are putting language as mutually exclusive to humans. Other animals communicate, by our standards they have language - although their concepts and form is quite different. Language can also be non-verbal. More likely 40,000 years ago we needed to go beyond simple concepts to more abstract ones.