Whether the actual process of thinking or reasoning requires language or not is an open question. It may be that thinking requires the use of symbols of some sort, words or images or what not.We all feel a certain sympathy with the girl who was told to think before she spoke, and replied," But how can I know what I think until I hear what I say?". Perhaps all thinking does require words or some other kind of symbols, but that is not a question that concerns us here. It is obvious that the communication of any proposition or any argument requires symbols, and involves language.
The use of language, however, complicates our problems. Certain accidental or misleading features of their formulations in language may make more difficult the task of investing the logical relations between prepositions. It is part of the task of the logician therefore, to examine language itself, primarily from the point of view of discovering and describing those aspects of which tend to obscure the difference between correct and incorrect argument. .
The use of language, however, complicates our problems. Certain accidental or misleading features of their formulations in language may make more difficult the task of investing the logical relations between prepositions. It is part of the task of the logician therefore, to examine language itself, primarily from the point of view of discovering and describing those aspects of which tend to obscure the difference between correct and incorrect argument. .
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