No but those are other ways of expressing thoughts. The idea of a thought minus any form of expressing it seems unthinkable to me. What would the thought be about? One would have no way of saying.. So it would be a thought without content? Is there such a thing? A thought about nothing - a 'nothing-thought'. Perhaps in the higher reaches of Zen or something, but I leave that to the aficionados.
DA On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Armando Baeza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Derek, in the use of paint or clay, to achieve any abstract design, does one > have to use words?. Does one have to think of words while whistling? Do > dancers have to think of words while dancing? Or playing a flute? > > mando > > On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Derek Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> For some reason I didn't get Cheerskep'e email re the above, but I saw >> it on the archives. >> >> He writes in part: 'Writers struggle to choose the best words -- how >> could that be if their >> thoughts are in words?' >> >> I think the answer is they struggle precisely because the thought only >> emerges fully once they sense the best words have been found. Until >> then, it is a kind of embryo of a thought. 'Crime and Punishment' is >> in a sense just one thought - which needed all those words to fully >> reveal itself. Dostoyevsky was not writing down a pre-thought >> 'language-less' idea - like an amanuensis putting someone else's ideas >> on paper. He was exploring - discovering - his thought, as he wrote. >> Like all artists. I think we all do much the same in everyday life in >> a less developed way. >> >> Wordless thoughts would be like 'a painter' who had never painted >> anything. >> >> DA > > -- Derek Allan http://www.home.netspeed.com.au/derek.allan/default.htm
