Date:  Wed, 6 Dec 1995 08:18:05 MST

From:  Tom Uharriet <UTOM[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ADMN.712.NEBO.EDU>

Subject: Re: Language and Intelligence



Ron,

Outside of language, how would you measure one's ability to

conceptualize abstrats? I am not saying that we ONLY think through

language. I am saying we all think in language.

Tom



> Tom Uharriet said:

> "But the fact that we all think in language suggests some correlation

> between our language and our intelligence."

>

> Why would you presume that "we all think in language?" Except for those

> conscious internal monologues/self-dialogues, how would we know? That

> there may be cultural constructs common to thought and language both does

> not require that thought be in language and so bear the form and

> restrictions of language.

>

> Ron Rabin

>



Tom Uharriet

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