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Skiming it, it seems that this article doesn't give itself a scoped definition for thought and language, despite pointing the highly polysemic state of these te
by psychoslave 2y ago
Skiming it, it seems that this article doesn't give itself a scoped definition for thought and language, despite pointing the highly polysemic state of these terms.
It's hard to conclude anything on so broad terms.
My perspective is that there are thoughts which are inaccessible to bare spoken language and straight forward access without such a language, and there are thoughts that are unreachable without the relevant language to leverage on.
Moreover I guess that here communication mainly means interpersonal communication, but my bet is that on the median case people use mainly languages as an internal tool to stear the large body of inconsistent thoughts going through their brain toward something consistent enough to be considered by the small part of the mind called attention, which can then try to decide something about it.
At least in my own case, most of my use of language never lead to any utterance. And of course some things I utter obviously lacked thoughtful consideration.