Lexicon of Arguments

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II 94
Thinking/Black: not to be covered with "various linguistic clothes". - If a thought is supposed to be "too profound for words", we have to ignore it - VsClothing Model: would lead to regarding all speaking as the encoding process and hearing as decoding.
II 97
Wrong: "Think before you speak" - Vs Cl.I.Lewis: meaning very well comes into existence through communication (otherwise we ge a "Clothing Model"). >Communication.
However Black Thesis: thinking without language is possible - E.g. imagining chess positions. Cf. >Psychological theories on language and thought, >Chess.
II 98
The speech current does not need to be accompanied by a parallel stream of mental events - the spoken language needs no mental correlate to be meaningful. >Speaking/Ricoeur.
II 100
It is hardly possible to distinguish between thoughts and linguistic representation.
II 119
But:
Language/Tractatus/Wittgenstein: 4.002: Language disguises the thought - in a way that one cannot infer the shape of the clad thought from the outer shape of the dress. (BlackVsWittgenstein).

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