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Thinking is better done in writing. And the language in which you write affects the scope of the thoughts you can think -- absence or presence of vocabulary for certain concepts, degree of precision of word nuances, etc. Until Cicero, no one would do philosophy in Latin.
In his translations (from Greek, the language of philosophy), Cicero often had to resort to long expressions to convey the meaning of a single term. He had to introduce entirely new words -- he had to invent the Latin vocabulary necessary for philosophy.
What expressions do you think we could be missing right now? I have a feeling we're not missing much because of our ability to use metaphors and analogies and giving new meaning to words, such as web, wormhole,
Was Greek ‘naturally’ better for philosophy than Latin or was it that the work of developing a philosophical conceptuality and forging the corresponding vocabulary had already been done in Greek but still to be done in Latin?
BTW, some people claim that Kant’s KRV was thought out in Latin and then written in German.
I'm writing about the shift from Latin into Tuscan Italian during the Renaissance to bolster literacy rates and level the playing field for writers who weren't educated to the level of nobility.
And from him to Bernard Stiegler making up a word word for ‘the stories we tell each other about our use of technologies that subsume the human experience’ (epiphilogenetic), a long tradition of makeruppers transmogrifying language to their philobamboozeling needs.
Humane Representation of Thought by @worrydream is *all* about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agOdP2Bmieg … We've been fortunate to have many people in the past invent new representations to express ideas richer than what existing rep could do. I hope we don't lose the appetite for this endeavor
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