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[from 'The Universe as We Find It' by John Heil, in 18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 8. Human Thought ]

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 Reference

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.