Ian Murray wrote:
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> Where/when does thought leave off and language begin? Just what is thought prior to
> and independent of language?
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I suggest you read Antonio Damasio, _The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciusness_ (Harcourt, 1999). In any case, for the purposes of this thread it isn't necessary to make this claim -- I just threw it in for possible future purposes.
> What would a Zen Buddhist say about the 1st sentence both with and without the
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I never try to guess what a Zen Buddhist would say about anything, but it is interesting to play around with the commas! :-)
Damasio gives a neurological and psychological explanation of "thought prior to language," but I think that premise is also historically necessary -- it is implicit in any materialist view (marxist or non-marxist).
Carrol
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> Ian