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Thinking: Thinking is a cognitive process that involves mental activities such as reasoning, problem solving, decision making, imagination and conceptualization. These operations enable individuals to process information, make sense of their experiences and interact with the world around them.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Anita Avramides on Thinking - Dictionary of Arguments

I 104
Thinking/Language/Avramides: thesis: beings without language can have thoughts.
>Thinking without language
, >Language and thought, >World/Thinking, >Thoughts.
I 113
Thinking without Language/Avramides: then language is a mere vehicle for communication.
>Communication.
Schiffer: the Gricean concepts allow for that, but contingently there are no such beings.
>Communication/Schiffer.
I 115
Thinking without Language/Reductionism/Avramides: there is only a problem for reductionism if the assertion is conceptually related to the semantic and psychological concepts - (and is not simply empirical).
>Reductionism.
Davidson: psychological concepts cannot be instantiated without semantic ones - SchifferVsDavidson: ditto, but they can be grasped without them!
Avramides: then the mere intuition that there can be no thinking without language is not sufficient for an antireductionism.
Antireductionism: must assert that the assertion of the reductionist a deep epistemic dependence is unfounded.
>Terminology/Arvramides.
I 142f
DummettVsIdealism/DummettVsLocke: Locke proposes a wrong code concept of language for ideas.
Significance is not explained by thoughts. - Where the thoughts, in turn, are without reference to language - this does not explain how thoughts themselves come to significance. - Then mother tongue would be like a foreign language.
>Code, >John Locke, >Meaning, cf. >Language of thought.
Solution/Dummett: grasp = use: E.g. thw word "square" sorts out square things. -Then no representations are needed to connect sentences with thoughts.
>Representation.
It is about understanding instead of association.
>Association, >Understanding.
AvramidesVsDummett: but this approach allows no thinking without language.
I 15
Thinking/Dummett: thinking can only be investigated through language (not through behavior). AvramidesVsDummett: also through behavior.
>Behavior.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Avr I
A. Avramides
Meaning and Mind Boston 1989


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