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Quote by: Isherwood  I perceive language as nothing more than socially agreed-upon verbal symbols we use to represent concepts beyond, "Gork, look...elephant", a concept that can be expressed physically by grabbing Gork's shirt and pointing at the elephant. I suspect the human tendency to "talk with our hands" is a holdover from a time when our language was inadequate to express our thoughts. |
How can you have a thought that does not exist in the language you speak. Are there words or "concepts" that we can't "THINK" of now? Yes. But to say those particular thoughts are essencial to the human mind would be a mistake.