2006-10-28 04:58:57 · 13 answers · asked by Feed me 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
absolutely are you implying that babies do not think??
2006-10-28 05:06:18 · answer #1 · answered by rewqfdsavxczrewqfdsavxcz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I learned 2 languages as a child, I'm equally as comfortable in both. Sometimes, half way through a series of thoughts, I find my self entering "the language zone", which is the point were I stop to choose a language for those thoughts! meaning that there was no language to my thoughts before reaching that point.
2006-10-28 12:08:27 · answer #2 · answered by mtoi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you asking about "Language" as in speaking?
Language is the verbal expression of thought.
It is a behavior known as "Verbal Behavior", and it is a method of commnicating our thoughts to influence the behavior of others.
B.F. Skinner studied this as well as Noam Chomsky and many others.
While there are unspoken launguages, such as sign language, it is still a means of communicating a thought that was previously present before the expression of the thought.
So perhaps it would be easier to think of it this way:
You have thoughts all the time. Just because you do not express them verbally doesn't mean you are not thinking them.
Thought is a behavior, you just can't observe it.
In Applied Behavior Analysis, Scientists do not deal with data that cannot be observed or measured, therefore they do not concern themselves with "Covert" behaviors such as thought.
But that doesn't mean it does not exist without the overt expression of it.
2006-10-28 12:19:11 · answer #3 · answered by Phoenix 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are a bit open minded you can think without language and get more info from everywhere using image thinking. Base of telepathic contacts are images, not words. The same for thoughts: they are secondary in words and primary as images. Some people use sounds, colours, numbers... but i do prefer images
2006-10-28 12:13:20 · answer #4 · answered by Everona97 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without thought, language would never have been invented!
2006-10-28 12:01:02 · answer #5 · answered by rebecca_sld 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Animals think, yet don't use language. There is, however, communication without language...
2006-10-28 12:06:20 · answer #6 · answered by Jane D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i guess that there must be but it would be quite frustrating and you would probably have to develop a language to express your thoughts. so perhaps thought creates the need for language.
2006-10-28 12:12:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course, thoughts are from our brain and soul, not from our voice or hands, there is also sign language
2006-10-28 13:02:36 · answer #8 · answered by pelancha 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, in my dog's head - and she expresses it quite clearly without language too!
2006-10-28 12:09:37 · answer #9 · answered by mad 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can think in images, you dont need a language for that.
2006-10-28 12:08:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are thoughts without knowledge itself! Being.This is the dark or this is the light or this is the shade, this could be anything, everything and kaboom.
2006-10-29 06:41:21 · answer #11 · answered by Bluebellofthefog 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋