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Thank you for the discussion and the suggestions. I shall have to try to find some of their works to help me along with this subject. Many thanks, again : )

I guess I should have foregrounded myself a bit. I'm interested in this because of the history of linguistic studies, and observations made by theorists such as Ferdinand De Saussure and Wittgenstein. The general modernist consensus has been that linguistic symbols, like "chair," have no...

Lol, I think this has just gotten more philosophically based than I wanted it too. I don't think that. I think that's a possibility, but that is essentially what I wanted to know. I understand linguistic symbols and all that. But what I want to know is personal experience with cognition. I...

Thanks for the prompt answer : ) I understand that language is a system of symbols, but I guess where my problem arises is in the realm of visual and auditory conceptualization. There is a differentiation between auditory and visual symbols. The words I am typing now are visual symbols, but...

Hello, I am sure this question has been asked before, but I was looking through the forms and unable to find it anywhere, and it has been a major question on my mind, so wanted to ask. I am not deaf, so it is hard for me to grasp the possibilities of this. How does someone who has been deaf...