Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we …

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Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound. ✨ Plato (2013). Plato's Theory of Knowledge: The Theaetetus and the Sophist, p.318, Courier Corporation
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