WHICH CAME FIRST, THOUGHT OR LANGUAGE?

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choices : philosophy : WHICH CAME FIRST, THOUGHT OR LANGUAGE?

[+] ballot by mithrandir
created Sun Mar 14, 04
Did thought articulate language, or did language (words) give rise to thinking?

Thought
Language

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COMMENTS:
Thought, of course. Many (probably most) animals are capable of some type of thought.

by nuckinfutz on Sun Mar 14, 04 10:38pm [+]

yep. because if you didn't think, how could you invent language in the first place?

One thing that's interesting, though, is how it would be to think w/o words. We're so used to words, it's almost inconcievable to think without them.

by FreeRadical on Mon Mar 15, 04 12:42am [+]

Thinking would be clearer if you thought in pictures. A picture is worth thousands of bits of information, words are more specific.

by sickofyourlies on Mon Mar 15, 04 8:00am [+]

Fuck knows

by xxxxxxxx on Tue Mar 16, 04 5:32am [+]

I agree with sickofyourlies. Thoughts must've been pictures. When humans learned to speak, they gained a "thoughtvoice". That brings up another interesting thing. Where does the "thoughtvoice" come from? We're not actually speaking, so how DO we think in words. I believe that this is something science should look into.

by eccentricities on Tue Mar 30, 04 12:54pm [+]

Who invented human language. And what did the oldest language sound like? And did all (or most) modern languages come from them?

My theory: the original language sounded like a cross between Arabic and one of the Caucasian languages (like Georgian) - lots of exotic consonants.

by LudwigVan on Thu Apr 08, 04 12:06am [+]

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