On May 12, 2008, at 3:36 PM, Derek Allan wrote:
Can there be a thought without any way of embodying it any way of expressing it and marking it off from other thoughts? Most importantly, since we ordinarily express most of our thoughts in words, can there be a wordless thought?
Dreams. In the dreams that I remember, there is never (or rarely) any verbal component. They are all cinematic, moving or animated pictures, scenes seen, with little sound and no dialogue (that I remember). You are conflating two different mental activities, the thoughts that one may have and the quite separate activity of describing those thoughts to yourself, of knowing and being aware of your own thoughts. That requires language to embody, not the thoughts per se, but the propositional structure of knowing and analyzing the thoughts. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED]
