In a message dated 8/21/12 11:18:23 AM, [email protected] writes:
> all communicable/ transmitttable thought is speech thought - the source > and > nature of all other thought is moot given it can not be transmitted but > only speculated upon - > No, other thought is not moot. It is to the very point point of Arendt's muddled assertion. The line by Arendt that I was commenting on was this categoric: "Speechless thought cannot exist." I think that's categorically wrong. In any case, she did not say, "The only thought that is communicable must be speech-thought." I imagine there are painters, dancers, composers, even architects who would say their works "communicate thought" -- in the sense that when their works are contemplated they occasion thought in the contemplators. And they can do this with no "speech" involved.
