wrote:
>
> --- Richard Hughes wrote:
> >
> > wouldn't sign language be their first brush
> > with abstract thought and thus first way of thinking about death?
>
> Does abstract thought require language? I've run
> across that notion, and it's never made sense to
> me. I have preverbal hunches all the time. Language
> doesn't seem to make those hunches possible.
I don't think in words unless I have some intention
to eventually communicate what I'm thinking.
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