Date:  Wed, 6 Dec 1995 11:39:11 -0500

From:  Ronald Butters <amspeech[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ACPUB.DUKE.EDU>

Subject: Re: Language and Intelligence



On Wed, 6 Dec 1995, Tom Uharriet wrote:



Music strikes me as thought--but not language. If you can whistle a tune

you can think without language. Just pucker up your lips and blow.



> 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

> utom[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]admn.712.nebo.edu

>