Ask Mark 5.7 - More on thinking requiring language
Channel: UCT CILT
Date: 2016-10-07

Ask Mark 5.7 - More on thinking requiring language

Professor Mark Solms from the University of Cape Town (UCT) a question (see below) posed to him on UCT's free online course, "What is a Mind?", hosted by FutureLearn. For more information on visit http://bit.ly/1JB2Dxf .

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Question: In one of your videos you conclude that thinking requires language. How does this square with the Whorf-Sapir controversy concerning the possibility of non-verbal thought? And what about the capacity of animals to “think”: for example, when a cat is considering its responses to an unfamiliar object in the household?