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Full Idea
Thinking - ordinary conscious thinking - is imagistic. This is so for 'linguistic' or 'sentential' thoughts as well as for patently non-linguistic thoughts.
Gist of Idea
Linguistic thought is just as imagistic as non-linguistic thought
Source
John Heil (The Universe as We Find It [2012], 12.10)
Book Ref
Heil,John: 'The Universe as We Find It' [OUP 2012], p.272
A Reaction
This claim (that linguistic thought is just as imagistic as non-linguistic thought) strikes me as an excellent insight.
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