Key points

Language and thought are different mental properties.

Language can augment intelligence as a kind of mental crutch.

Aphasia is a language disorder, not an intelligence problem.

Imagine you’re a physician and you are called in to evaluate a patient who has had a sudden change in his neurological status, likely a stroke. You find him alert, mobile, and talking. But when you ask him how he is feeling he says, “We’re out with them. Other people are working with them and them. I’m very happy with them. This girl with verly good. And happy and I play golf and hit up trees. We play out with the hands. We save a lot of hand on hold for peoples for us. Other hands. I don’t know what you get, but I talk with a lot of hand fram. Sometime. Am I talk of anymore to saying.” You don’t dete

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