1. Which comes first: thought or language?
Elizabeth Spelke, professor of psychology, did experiments showing that children learn to think independently about objects before they learn language. She says its like the chicken and egg question. Do we learn to think before we speak, or does language shape our thoughts?. Experts conclude that thought comes first. "Infants are born with a language-independent system for thinking about objects", "these concepts give meaning to the words they learn later". Speakers of different languages notice different things and by that they make different distinctions.
2. Can we think without language?
If you are not born deaf, it is very possible that you know language, and you may unconsciously think that you are not using language while thinking, so we will take the example of someone who was born deaf. It is obvious that deaf people who do not have language think, and how do they think?, they think with pictures and actions. When we think we think with word-thoughts and deaf people think with image-thoughts.
3. Is it possible that we think in images?
As I said in before, deaf people think with pictures and actions, or other words image-thoughts, if i tell you a scene, it is very unlikely that you think or imagine the words i am saying in a sentence, for example, if i tell you two bears fighting, will you think a white sheet of paper written "Two bears fighting" or will you think of an image of two bears fighting.
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