„When in accordance with the materialistic analysis of the cognitive process we consider thought and human consciousness as linguistic thought, as thought made of language (Marx maintained that language is “my consciousness and that of others”), it is evident that any analysis of the cognitive process must also be the analysis of the linguistic process, without which thought is simply impossible.“

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— Adam Schaff

Quelle: Essays in the Philosophy of Language, 1967, p. 20-21

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polnischer Philosoph 1913 - 2006

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— Max Velmans British psychologist 1942

Is human information processing conscious?, 1991

„… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…“

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— Derek Walcott Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright 1930 - 2017

„Economists have never allowed their analysis to be influenced by psychologists of their time, but have always framed for themselves such assumptions about psychical processes as they have thought it desirable to make.“

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— Joseph Alois Schumpeter Austrian economist 1883 - 1950

Joseph Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis, 1945. p. 27

„We have ranged over all the main phases of human information processing - from information encoding, storage, retrieval, and transformation to output. We have considered the role of consciousness in the analysis and selection of stimuli, in learning and memory, and in the production of voluntary responses, including those requiring planning and creativity.
In one sense, each of these tasks may be "conscious" (if it is at the focus of attention). We may be conscious of the stimuli that we analyze and select for more detailed attention, conscious of what we learn and commit to memory, and conscious of the responses we make to such stimuli. When the required responses are complex or novel we may be aware of devoting effort to planning and monitoring their execution. In reflective thought or problem solving we may have some awareness of internal processing in the form of thoughts, emotions, images, and so forth. Whether consciousness is necessary for such processing, however, is a different matter.“

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— Max Velmans British psychologist 1942

Partly cited in: W.S. Robinson (2006). "Epiphenomenalism." Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science.
Is human information processing conscious?, 1991

„Dialogue is really aimed at going into the whole thought process and changing the way the thought process occurs collectively. We haven't really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.“

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— David Bohm American theoretical physicist 1917 - 1992

"On Dialogue"
Kontext: Dialogue is really aimed at going into the whole thought process and changing the way the thought process occurs collectively. We haven't really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process. Why does thought require attention? Every thinking requires attention, really. If we ran machines withinout paying attention to them, they would break down. Our thought, too, is a process, and it requires attention, otherwise its going to go wrong.

„All realism derives from the analysis of knowledge; all idealism derives from the analysis of a thought.“

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— Étienne Gilson French historian and philosopher 1884 - 1978

Methodical Realism

„For in the last analysis it is human consciousness which is the subject matter of history.“

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— Marc Bloch French historian, medievalist, and historiographer 1886 - 1944

The Historian's Craft, pg.151

„There is always the danger that the use of traditional grammatical terms with reference to a wide variety of languages may be taken to imply a secret belief in universal grammar. Every analysis of a particular ‘language’ must of necessity determine the values of the ad hoc categories to which traditional names are given. What is here being sketched is a general linguistic theory applicable to particular linguistic descriptions, not a theory of universals for general linguistic description.“

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— John Rupert Firth English linguist 1890 - 1960

Quelle: "A synopsis of linguistic theory 1930-1955." 1957, p. 21; as cited in: Olivares, Beatriz Enriqueta Quiroz. The interpersonal and experiential grammar of Chilean Spanish: Towards a principled Systemic-Functional description based on axial argumentation. Diss. University of Sydney, 2013.

„It is part of the task of linguistics to describe texts, and all texts, including those prose or verse, which fall within any definition of literature and are accessible to analysis by the existing methods of linguistics.“

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— Michael Halliday Australian linguist 1925 - 2018

Quelle: 1950s–1960s, The Linguistic Sciences and Language Teaching, 1964, p. 1.

„Man set out on a two-thousand-year trial of a particular method of differentiation, adapting the structure of his mental processes, conscious and unconscious, to a certain general form. We need to consider only the most general characteristics of this form, and for the purpose of this analysis, there reduce to two. Thought may be either unitary or dualistic (since other pluralistic forms may be neglected), and it may be either process or static. These two pairs produce four combinations or types of thought: unitary-process, unitary-static, dualistic-process and dualistic-static. The first and the last are the most stable and common types; the unitary-static and dualistic-process forms are less frequent and may be regarded as anomalous forms appearing at times of transition.“

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— Lancelot Law Whyte Scottish industrial engineer 1896 - 1972

Quelle: The Next Development in Man (1948), p. 193-194

„But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.“

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— George Orwell, buch 1984

"Politics and the English Language" (1946)
Quelle: 1984
Kontext: But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.
Kontext: All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. I should expect to find — this is a guess which I have not sufficient knowledge to verify — that the German, Russian and Italian languages have all deteriorated in the last ten or fifteen years, as a result of dictatorship.
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.

„Thought is born of failure. When action satisfies there is no residue to hold the attention; to think is to confess a lack of adjustment which we must stop to consider. Only when the human organism fails to achieve an adequate response to its situation is there material for the process of thought, and the greater the failure the more searching they become.“

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— Lancelot Law Whyte Scottish industrial engineer 1896 - 1972

Quelle: The Next Development in Man (1948), p. 1

„The thought process can never be complete without articulation.“

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— Stephen King, buch The Stand

Quelle: The Stand

„Without universities independent of government control, the natural process of acquiring knowledge and developing thought will be thwarted, if not rendered impossible.“

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— Narges Mohammadi Iranian human rights activist 1972

Letter Accepting 2018 Andrei Sakharov Prizefrom (2018)

„No thought, no reflection, no analysis, No cultivation, no intention; Let it settle itself.“

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— Tilopa Indian philosopher 928 - 1009

"Six Precepts" of Tilopa, quoted in Powell Zen and Reality (1975), p. 72

„Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought“

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— Eckhart Tolle German writer 1948

Quelle: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

„Today, in the era of the complete triumph of the spectacle, what can be reaped from the heritage of Debord? It is clear that the spectacle is language, the very communicativity or linguistic being of humans. This means that a fuller Marxian analysis should deal with the fact that capitalism (or any other name one wants to give the process that today dominated world history) was directed not only toward the expropriation of productive activity, but also and principally toward the alienation of language itself, of the very linguistic and communicative nature of humans, of that logos which one of Heraclitus' fragments identified as the Common. The extreme form of this expropriation of the Common is the spectacle, that is, the politics we live in. But this also means that in the spectacle of our own linguistic nature comes back to us inverted. This is why (precisely because what is being expropriated is the very possibility of common good) the violence of the spectacle is so destructive; but for the same reason the spectacle remains something like a positive possibility that can be used against it.“

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— Giorgio Agamben Italian philosopher 1942

Quelle: The Coming Community (1993), Ch. 18 : Shekinah

„Transaction costs were used in the one case to show that if they are not included in the analysis, the firm has no purpose, while in the other I showed, as I thought, that if transaction costs were not introduced into the analysis, for the range of problems considered, the law had no purpose.“

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— Ronald H. Coase, The Nature of the Firm

Ronald H. Coase (1988). "The Nature of the Firm: Influence." Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 4 (No. 1, Spring): 33—47. p. 34; as cited in Eggertsson (1990; xiii)
1960s-1980s

„Not only the tools of manual labour, but also the tools of human thought — words — are subject to the laws of historical development. The history of the meanings of words is outside the area of interest of formal logic, and could not be fruitfully studied by the methods of that discipline.
The history of language in what is its most essential content is the history of language as a social instrument of thought; it is historical epistemology which cannot be studied within the scope of any other discipline.
The linguist is of necessity only marginally interested in all conventional terminology, whereas certain votaries of formal logic are inclined to investigate domains which are alien to linguistics and even to some extent in contradiction to its basic assumptions!“

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— Witold Doroszewski Lexicographer and linguist 1899 - 1976

As cited in Schaff (1962;7).
"Comments on Semantics", 1952

„When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.“

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— Umberto Eco Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist 1932 - 2016

Quelle: Postscript to the Name of the Rose

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