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	Language and thought -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Many point out the seemingly common-sense realization that upon introspection we seem to think thoughts in the (A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols) language we speak.
		Advocates of (Click link for more info and facts about non-sexist language) non-sexist language including some (A supporter of feminism) feminists say that the English language perpetuates biases against women, such as using male-gendered terms such as "he" and "man" as generic.
		In the book, actual acronyms are exposed which are so secret, due to their purportedly (A person with a prejudiced belief that one race is superior to others) racist and (A man with a chauvinistic belief in the inferiority of women) sexist functions, that they do not appear in the official DICNAVABs.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/la/language_and_thought.htm (840 words)

	Language, Thought, and Existence: Philosophy Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I think language can be thought of as a massive extension of the ideas of self-communication and communication between entities--just as chemical messengers communicate "messages" between cells, for example, strings of words communicate messages between human beings.
		Language is a consequence of the assertion that man is seperate from other things not the cause of that assertion.
		Although perhaps the differences between thought and language can be ascribed to the fact that language requires conventions to facilitate understanding — and thus is a faculty shaped by socialisation — whereas thought (internal self-communication) doesn’t necessitate any sort of understanding outside that of the individual in question.
	forums.philosophyforums.com /thread/13166 (2137 words)

	The Language of Thought Hypothesis
		This language consists of a system of representations that is physically realized in the brain of thinkers and has a combinatorial syntax (and semantics) such that operations on representations are causally sensitive only to the syntactic properties of representations.
		The Language of Thought Hypothesis is so-called because of (B): token mental representations are like sentences in a language in that they have a syntactically and semantically regimented constituent structure.
		Given that a mature speaker is able to produce/understand a certain sentence in her native language, by psychological law, there always appear to be a cluster of other sentences that she is able to produce/understand.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/language-thought (12152 words)

	The Effect of Language upon Thinking
		Other writers maintain that differences between languages are such that an accurate translation must frequently be unidiomatic in the receptor language, because the idiomatic contructions and usages of the receptor language cannot capture the foreign modes of thought which are inherent in the language of the original text.
		Indeed, nearly all of the literature of the middle ages is written in a language which was not used at all in ordinary conversation, and so it may be said that for a thousand years the idea that ordinary language would be sufficient to express philosophical or theological ideas was never even entertained.
		Language is a guide to 'social reality.' Though language is not ordinarily thought of as of essential interest to the students of social science, it powerfully conditions all our thinking about social problems and processes.
	www.bible-researcher.com /linguistics.html (7171 words)

	Vagueness, Semantics, and the Language of Thought
		Deep Thought's behavior can be at least partly predicted and explained using a semantic, contentful level--Deep Thought believes it is better to castle before deploying the queen, wants to keep its knights off the wings, desires to control the center of the board, and so on.
		But most, and maybe all, natural language predicates are vague--that is, they have objects in their domain of application such that the predicate neither clearly applies nor clearly fails to apply to those objects.
		Thus, a semantics that ignores this characteristic is not a semantics suitable for a language with vague predicates.
	psyche.cs.monash.edu.au /v1/psyche-1-01-dewitt.html (7837 words)

	Linguistics 100.2: Language, Thought, and Reality: English outside the box
		It embraces not only the standard language of literature and conversation, whether current at the moment, or obsolete, or archaic, but also the main technical vocabulary, and a large measure of dialectical usage and slang.
		The contributors are experts in their fields, and their research in a variety of the world's languages gives this work an international focus.
		More for professional linguists than students, the LINGUIST List is dedicated to providing information on language and language analysis, and to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world.
	www.library.cornell.edu /olinuris/ref/ling100_2smg.html (2797 words)

	Ball-Stick-Bird - Article - The Power of Context; Creating Meaning in Language and Thought.
		The power of contextual language was demonstrated when four-year olds, "dyslexic" and "learning disabled" students, even the severely retarded, easily built the meaningful words that combine into the sentences that tell the story of Vad of Mars.
		Research findings on language acquisition in children (referred to by psychologists as developmental linguistics) have demonstrated that already with the first words a toddler's utterances are context driven.
		We saw first hand that language is not just a device to communicate with others, but even more important, it increases the ability to communicate with ourselves.
	www.ballstickbird.com /articles/a25_powerofread.html (2449 words)

	Plebius Press - Language, Thought and Cognition News
		Instead, the mind should be thought of more as working the way biological organisms do: as a dynamic continuum, cascading through shades of grey.
		The human brain's remarkable flexibility to understand a variety of signals as language extends to an unusual whistle language used by shepherds on one of the Canary Islands off the northwest coast of Africa.
		And the way the brain processes these whistles is similar to the way it goes about deciphering English, Spanish or other spoken languages, according to research being published in tomorrow's issue of the journal Nature.
	psychology.plebius.org /news.php?new_topic=16 (799 words)

	Thought, language & cognitiion forums - The Plebius Press
		Thought, language & cognitiion forums - The Plebius Press
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		Discuss scientific and philosophical approaches to thought, language and cognition.
	forum.psychdaily.com /forum.php?f=11 (48 words)

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