I am. I think. As a result of my thinking, I either act or attempt to communicate my thought by use of a learned language. Sometimes that communication happens instantaneously (influenced by instinct or a learned/conditioned feeling). At other times it happens after more in depth language thinking.
A question that I have deals with multi-linguistic people. Being familiar (although not completely fluent) with another language I have at times thought of something and applied a foreign word to that thought. Do people that think in different languages think more than single language folks? Kind of a je ne sais quoi? If you know what I mean. Thanks for the thread. It really makes me THINK. ;-)
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Do people that think in different languages think more than single language folks? Kind of a je ne sais quoi? If you know what I mean.
Thanks Kudsman, I have quite a few languages, though only understand the English spoken tonguee. ;-` (Well, maybe that's not quite true; sometimes I speak with "Amber" the pooch in her tongue.) I think that folks with multiple languages have more in their grasp. It is the grasping and what is grasped, so to speak, that is important, eh? However little we know of language. What do you think?
BTW, it hasn't been mentioned elsewhere in this thread to my knowledge, but a great, great exemplar of Dallas Willard's position is Hellen Keller (though one needn't take extreme measures to roughly but effictively measure thinking).
Hellen Keller ping here --- anyone read any of her works (wouldn't have to be ladies, but more probable)? If so and you know and don't mind to show: what did she say about her thinking before language? (I remember it being said that she was aware of God --pinging WT, too, for that.)