Just as giving something shape limits it, our thoughts may well be limited right from the start. For our thoughts are formed in languages and words that we understand. Yet these very words, these languages, become the boundaries that we cannot transcend. Because we cannot think of something that cannot be described by the languages we speak, the words that we know.
Language, then, is the enabler for thought creation. Thoughts can be formed when there is a language to describe it. And when there is no word for that thought? Create that word to describe it, and the thought is created. The word, and the creation that is described by the word, are one and the same.
Something to ponder on. Something I am pondering on, even though I have a headache the whole day.
Language, then, is the enabler for thought creation. Thoughts can be formed when there is a language to describe it. And when there is no word for that thought? Create that word to describe it, and the thought is created. The word, and the creation that is described by the word, are one and the same.
Something to ponder on. Something I am pondering on, even though I have a headache the whole day.
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