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Single Idea 24102
[filed under theme 18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 1. Thought
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Full Idea
Thoughts are merely signs, as words are signs for thoughts.
Gist of Idea
Thoughts are signs (just as words are)
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1882-84 [1883], 5[1]272)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from the period of 'Zarathustra' (v 14)', ed/tr. Loeb/Tinsley [Stanford 2019], p.196
A Reaction
The obvious question he invites is 'signs of what?'. His point must be that most thinking is both non-verbal and non-conscious, which he took to be true even of intellectual thought. I sympathise with his view.
The
34 ideas
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[intentional activity of the mind]:
1524
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For Empedocles thinking is almost identical to perception
[Empedocles, by Theophrastus]
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1733
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Thinking is not perceiving, but takes the form of imagination and speculation
[Aristotle]
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4405
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The attainment of truth is the task of the intellectual part of the soul
[Aristotle]
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23652
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We must first conceive things before we can consider them
[Reid]
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5556
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A pure concept of the understanding can never become an image
[Kant]
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8103
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A thought is as real as a cannon ball
[Joubert]
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15608
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The act of thinking is the bringing forth of universals
[Hegel]
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24078
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Thoughts cannot be fully reproduced in words
[Nietzsche]
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4419
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People who think in words are orators rather than thinkers, and think about facts instead of thinking facts
[Nietzsche]
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8620
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Thought is the same everywhere, and the laws of thought do not vary
[Frege]
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9581
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Many people have the same thought, which is the component, not the private presentation
[Frege]
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8162
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Thoughts have their own realm of reality - 'sense' (as opposed to the realm of 'reference')
[Frege, by Dummett]
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9818
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A thought is distinguished from other things by a capacity to be true or false
[Frege, by Dummett]
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19469
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We grasp thoughts (thinking), decide they are true (judgement), and manifest the judgement (assertion)
[Frege]
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24102
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Thoughts are signs (just as words are)
[Nietzsche]
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18717
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Thought is an activity which we perform by the expression of it
[Wittgenstein]
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23756
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The mind is imprisoned and limited by language, restricting our awareness of wider thoughts
[Weil]
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9033
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Recognition must precede the acquisition of basic concepts, so it is the fundamental intellectual process
[Price,HH]
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8175
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A theory of thought will include propositional attitudes as well as propositions
[Dummett]
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8174
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The theories of meaning and understanding are the only routes to an account of thought
[Dummett]
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21880
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'Tacit theory' controls our thinking (which is why Freud is important)
[Derrida]
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6392
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Thought depends on speech
[Davidson]
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2476
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The goal of thought is to understand the world, not instantly sort it into conceptual categories
[Fodor]
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12640
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Associative thinking avoids syntax, but can't preserve sense, reference or truth
[Fodor]
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12641
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Connectionism gives no account of how constituents make complex concepts
[Fodor]
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2992
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We may be able to explain rationality mechanically
[Fodor]
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7850
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Thinking about a thing doesn't require activating it
[Papineau]
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7851
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Consciousness affects bodily movement, so thoughts must be material states
[Papineau]
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4625
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Is mental imagery pictorial, or is it propositional?
[Heil]
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18503
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You can think of tomatoes without grasping what they are
[Heil]
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6648
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Some behaviourists believe thought is just suppressed speech
[Lowe]
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11082
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Should we take the 'depictivist' or the 'descriptivist/propositionalist' view of mental imagery?
[Hanna]
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10663
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A thought can refer to many things, but only predicate a universal and affirm a state of affairs
[Hossack]
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18561
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We can identify a set of cognitive capacities which are 'higher order'
[Machery]
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