I think it's always a mixed operation. When we say thought, we're already into language since a thought is only recognized as such when it becomes language. But there's something else too, images, consciousness, urges, inclinations, feelings, emotions, always mingled with thought, shaping it, dissolving it, merging. Essentially, it's pictorial for some of us, perhaps most, since vision is the primary sense that enables metaphor and all thinking is metaphorical.
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