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Can rational thought exist without language?

If one can understand the existence of cause and effect one is rational. This understanding, to be conveyed or remembered needs symbols inside one’s own mind. These symbols are called words. Agreed words between two you are more people is called language. The question is weather symbols required for rationality . . . Yes.

Stoic Teacher
2 min readApr 17, 2022
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* If one can understand the existence of cause and effect one is rational. This understanding, to be conveyed or remembered needs symbols inside one’s own mind. These symbols are called words. Agreed words between two you are more people is called language. The question is weather symbols required for rationality . . . Yes.

* Thought is simply thought. It is neither rational or irrational. Thought exists with or without language. Behavior is…

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