@Alan McDougall,
Alan McDougall wrote:Interesting! I thought all people thought like I do namely in word formed in my brain, as I type this on each completed word it immediately becomes the same as expressing it will my voice box except it is silent and somewhere in the neurons of my brain. Richard Dawkins calls it "memes" and I "think" that is a good word to describe thinking?
When I think of a concrete object, I think wordlessly, and then, if I want to describe the thing, I hunt about until I find the exact words that seem to fit it. It is interesting to me that more than one of the people I find most difficult to see eye-to-eye with philosophically/epistemologically have told me the exact opposite: That for them, a thought is not concrete until it has a word.