" Maybe, just maybe, we don't think in language, or think in words. Is it possible we think in visual images, or in auditory images? Could it be we think in abstract propositions about what is true about what? Is it possible that language is only a way of communicating thoughts, of getting them out of one head and into another by making noise?" ...Na, just a funny thought again...Doc
I think most people agree that we do not actually think in words. If we did: we would not search for the right word to express a thought; we could not think as pre-verbal infants; we would not have integrated thought if we were bilingual – and on and on. We do not think in actual words but perhaps in something like concepts. Those concepts could be represented by words or pictures or sounds or whatever. But do we actually think in concepts. Some would say that we think in symbols and with them we can ‘compute’ or think. Perhaps we have symbols standing for concepts and we manipulate these with some sort of rule system. Lemme think about it...
