“Rational thought needs language to exist”
Agree
- Language structures abstract thinking
- Can't reason without concepts
- Internal dialogue drives logic
- Math is a language
- Babies think concretely only
Disagree
- Animals solve complex problems
- Intuition transcends words
- Mathematical thinking pre-verbal
- Spatial reasoning needs no language
- Music and art are rational
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