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the chicken or the egg?

Fascinating, be it from the linguistic point of view or the psychological. 

Harvard Gazette: Which Comes First, Language or Thought? 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thought had to exist - how else could language DEVELOP? :P

Xenon Oxide said...

Personally, I don't see why we need to separate language from thought. Language IS thought, and thought IS language. Language is thought manifested.

And, going back to the analogy of "the chicken and the egg": what is a chicken but a way for the egg to make sure it makes more of its kind?