[Ohioan]

It is rather pompous to assume that someone who believes he is thinking in words is actually not. Do you base your assumption on the way you think?

In part, yes. But it is the way everyone thinks, whether they want to argue the point or not. If your wife comes home and describes an event that happened at work, or at a store, or at her hair dresser's, with her impressions, etc.., do you really believe that her analysis of the event started verbally? How could it? The start is in the dynamic moving images that she is relating to you via the medium of language. But it had to start with those images. However fast she may make the verbal transfer, the event, related, started with images and other sensory impressions.

Incidentally, whether you consider me pompous or not, I little care. But I did want to commend you on your post #215. It is a reasoned position, which I would have acknowledged earlier, had I not already posted a second response here, before I read it.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[DaughterofEve]

Regarding bias getting in the way of determining thought processes:
Don't you think that people who have been together a long time (like a married couple) would be likely to go through the same series of reactions and initial associations after an event, in order to often simultaneously introduce the same exact (seemingly non-connected) next topic of conversation?
If so, isn't it possible that there are wider commonalities that we might share in different types of groups that might be studied?
Just curious as to your thoughts.