Lexicon of Arguments

 

Gärdenfors I 72
Thinking without language/Tomasello/Gärdenfors: thesis: Thinking is more original than language: For example, to assume that language is a cause of human thinking is like the thesis that money is the cause of economics. (Tomasello 1999⁽¹⁾, p. 94).
>Thinking without language, >World/thinking, >Language and thought, >Language, >Developmental stages.
Gärdenfors: But even before the money came up, people were trading.
I 73
The language was also later added to communication and made it more efficient, just as money made trade more efficient.
>Communication, >Communication media.

1. Tomasello, M. (1999). The cultural origins of human cognition. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.