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1. Does thought depend on language?

We human beings may not be the most admirable species on the planet, or the most

likely to survive for another millennium, but we are without any doubt at all

the most intelligent. We are also the only species with language. What is the

relation between these two obvious facts?

Before going on to consider that question, I must pause briefly to defend my

second premise. Don't whales and dolphins, vervet monkeys and honey bees (the

list goes on) have languages of sorts? Haven't chimpanzees in laboratories been

taught rudimentary languages of sorts? Yes, and body language is a sort of

language, and music is the international language (sort of) and politics is a

sort of language, and the complex world of odor and olfaction is another, highly

emotionally charged language, and so on. It sometimes seems that the highest

praise we can bestow on a phenomenon we are studying is the claim that its......

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