[MD] indefensible yet enlightening

[Mary]

Have you ever been at a loss for words?  Try to catch yourself at this sometime.  I've tried and the best analogy I can come up with is "pictures".  I definitely notice having thoughts that are prior to language, though.  In fact, sometimes concepts occur to me and I don't even bother to convert them to English words.  I know what I mean, and this gives me more mental time to move on to the next thought. Sometimes converting thoughts to words seems a waste of mental "cpu cycles" especially during problem solving when I need to evaluate and accept or reject potential solutions in a hurry.

Mary

On Behalf Of craigerb at comcast.net
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 9:24 PM
> 
> [Horse, quoting Craig]
> 
> "No one thinks in pictures, because the picture would have to be
> interpretted & that could not be done by another picture.
> (see Wittgenstein)"
> 
> [Horse]
> > I'm not sure why you think that no-one thinks in pictures.
> 
> Strange.  You quote my (& Wittgenstein's) argument, then ask for an
> argument.
> Perhaps an example will help:
> (I'll assume we're talking about "mental" pictures here.)
> Suppose you hear scratching on the other side of a door & a picture of
> a cat
> comes to mind.  Could this picture be what's meant by "thinking there
> is a cat
> on the other side of the door"?
> No, because this same picture could come to mind when thinking "I wish
> a cat
> would chase away t he squirrel scratching on the other side of the
> door".
> The pict ure cannot play the needed role of thinking, " because the
> picture
> would have to be interpretted & that could not be done by another
> picture".
> You could think " there is a cat on the other side of the door" even if
> a picture
> of a car came to mind.
> Craig
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