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Re:Crows have been shown to understand the concept of zero by sellyme on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @09:41PM (#28136955)
> Even the question whether one can 'think' of something without having a linguistic representation is a topic of active debate.

This seems fairly trivially true just based on how common it is for someone to have 100% full understanding of a concept and then be completely incapable of remembering the word describing it, or even a phrase that conveys a decent approximation.

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Re:Crows have been shown to understand the concept of zero by srean on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @01:04AM (#28138218)
Linguistic representation can deal with what's-the-word-again place holders though. So, not being able to recall the name of an object or concept does not prevent linguistic thinking.
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