How can you prove that "speechless thought does not exist" is an incorrect statement? To answer you must define speech and thought and existence.
I'll try in the context of the statement. speech = any word or utterance, including gesture. thought = any conception including feeling sensation and emotion. existence = any conscious awareness of something presumed to be outside the self or independent of the self. I'm inclined to agree that humans think with 'speech' as defined above. That does not mean that any speech is adequate or correct. wc ----- Original Message ---- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, August 21, 2012 8:16:52 AM Subject: Re: is list dead? In a message dated 8/17/12 11:11:55 PM, [email protected] writes: > nothing is not a thing it is not a space - it is a condition n whose > presence we might begin to notice things - such as silence > Beware of Heideggerian lines like this. Heidegger's head defied a law of physics: It produced sonorities in a vacuum. As did his girlfriend Hannah Arendt. "All thinking is in words," she said. "Speechless thought cannot exist." Imagine how impoverished her thinking was. It takes a mind that destitute to embrace Heidegger.
