Posted: Oct 14, 2016 12:28 am
igorfrankensteen wrote:It's rare that I don't begin with non-verbal elements of conceptualization and THEN translate them into words in order to communicate them.
While I agree that quite possibly every single thought we have begins without a linguistic analog, most of the thoughts we remember don't end that way, and the transition from pre-linguistic to linguistic thought alters the thought itself. The words we choose to frame our thoughts constrain the meanings and relationships of the thought in ways which often had not happened prior to bridging into language. Whether this is to the benefit or the detriment of our thinking is, I think, a question of context.
What are my sources? You went with anecdote, so that's where I'm pulling my stuff out of, too.