Language
This is in response to the question about Hellen Keller and whether or not there is thought without language [http://www.amherst.edu/askphilosophers/question/459]. How could a thoughtless person ACQUIRE language? It seems that the process of learning a language (or anything else, for that matter) would require thought. Doesn't this argument prove that thought exists prior to language acquisition?
The same can be said of babies. Not many would argue that pre-verbal babies are incapable of thought. Otherwise they would never learn anything.
Accepted:March 25, 2006
Accepted:
March 25, 2006